(Hill) House liberals are escalating their campaign to punish Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for recent Islamophobic remarks targeting a Muslim colleague, warning Democratic leaders that a failure to do so will condone bigotry and threaten the safety of minorities across the country.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her Democratic leadership team had moved quickly earlier in the year to discipline Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) for promoting violent rhetoric and imagery against Democratic lawmakers.
But they’re treading more carefully in the case of Boebert, who stirred a firestorm of controversy after a video emerged last month in which she suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), one of three Muslims in Congress, must be a suicide bomber because of her faith.
