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Assault In The Senate
Violence Can Happen Between Members of Congress
Democratic lawmakers call for the expulsion of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia over racist and abusive behavior, for her support of violent acts against other politicians, and her amplification of QAnon and other false conspiracies. Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush asks to have her offices moved away from Taylor Greene’s due to her confrontations. Muslim members of Congress feel personally threatened — in a publicity stunt, Greene once roamed the Capitol trying to compel Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to re-swear their oaths of office on the Bible because they’d taken theirs on the Koran.
In addition to Greene, one House Democrat told CNN, “”There have been increasing tensions with certain incoming freshmen for months, who have been insistent on bringing firearms in violation of law and guidelines” — a reference to Republican Representatives Lauren Boebert of Colorado, and Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, among others.
The potential for violence is brewing in Congress itself, as Republicans welcome fringe extremists into their ranks. Many Republican lawmakers act as if this is much ado about nothing, as if such Member-on-Member violence would never happen under the golden dome of the Capitol.
