At today's House Republican leadership press briefing, Speaker Johnson was asked about actions against Democratic lawmakers involved in a protest at a New Jersey ICE facility.
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00:00Mr. Speaker, can you flesh out the possible discipline that these members, the Democrats, could face for what happened in New Jersey?
00:10Well, look, there's three possible disciplinary actions in Congress for the House to take.
00:16You can censure a member, and that probably does seem appropriate here.
00:20You can keep them off committees. That's a new tradition begun by the Democrats in recent years.
00:25And you can expel someone from Congress.
00:27Now, expulsion requires a two-thirds vote. That's not likely because the margins are small of both sides.
00:34But, you know, we're looking at what is appropriate.
00:36Look, I think it's pretty clear that the law was out there.
00:39You might have noticed the Wisconsin judge that was trying to conceal the illegal alien that was going to be apprehended by ICE,
00:47a federal grand jury indicted the judge. I think that was just late yesterday.
00:50And I'm told that she'll be brought up on maybe facing potentially six years in jail and $350,000 in fines because she obstructed the proceedings,
01:01obstructed justice, and was engaged in other activities.
01:04So, look, what these House Democrats did is in that same vein of what the judge is being indicted for.
01:12So, I think there's some legal implications to play out here, and we'll see how it is.
01:16Does that mean expulsion on a table?
01:19We're talking through all the possibilities.
01:20Let's go.