Removal Of Marjorie Greene From House Committee After ‘Divorce’ Comments Pushed By Ex-Congressman

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Marjorie Taylor Greene sounds like she’s talking to the same goblins in the walls at Mar-a-Lago who Trump evidently hears from every time he starts blabbering about ridiculous rumors or concepts with an undetermined source.

On Twitter, Greene posted in support of the idea of a so-called national divorce, which is weird conservative-speak for breaking the country apart. Obviously, there is a long list of problems associated with such an idea, but among the issues is that it’s ridiculous to try and comprehensively classify single states as “red” (meaning Republican) or “blue” (meaning Democratic). In Greene’s own state, Trump won in the presidential race in 2016, and then Biden eked out a win in 2020. Its two Senators are now also Democrats — but its governor remains Republican Brian Kemp, who won a second term last year over Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams. Which category would Georgia fall in? What about California, where Democrats consistently win but where Republicans nonetheless number well into the millions?

The idea is obviously ridiculous, although it could still help fuel scattered surges of political violence like what the country saw on January 6 — and Greene is currently serving on the House panel on homeland security! (She’s also on the House Oversight Committee in this new Congress.) Denver Riggleman, who is a former GOP Congressman and helped with the investigation by the House committee that probed the Capitol riot, questioned Greene’s spot on the homeland security panel, suggesting her disqualification. “I would think that this alone would disqualify a sitting member of Congress from serving on the Committee for Homeland Security,” Riggleman said on Twitter Monday. “It’s a ludicrous statement.”

Greene has already drawn scrutiny also in association with her spot on the oversight panel. In prior remarks she made in a hearing, she claimed Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt was “murdered” by a police officer, although that legal determination was never made, despite an investigation with the Justice Department’s involvement. In other lingering disputes over what happened during and shortly after the riot, Trump and two participants in the violence were recently sued by Sandra Garza, the longtime romantic partner of the late Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, over Sicknick’s death soon after the violence. Garza accuses the three of responsibility for wrongful death and is seeking financial penalties of at least $10 million apiece. The two rioters named as defendants were involved in the attacks on Sicknick during the riot.