Tag Archives: Louie Gohmert

Mediaite reports: Four House Republicans voted against funding for the bipartisan United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Monday after the act passed in the Senate. The Senate passed the bill in July by unanimous consent after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced the legislation to reauthorize the commission, which monitors the state of religious liberty across the globe. Republicans voted …

CNN reports: Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas presented an honorary American flag recently flown above the US Capitol to a convicted January 6 rioter after she was released from prison Friday. Gohmert, a Trump ally who has previously promoted debunked conspiracies about the January 6, 2021, insurrection, met Dr. Simone Gold upon her release from federal prison in Miami …

The Independent reports: Representatives Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Louis Gohmert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Scott Perry were among the Republican members of Congress who asked then-president Donald Trump to insulate them from future prosecutions by granting them presidential pardons. Their names were revealed by the House January 6 select committee on Thursday at the end of the panel’s …

“To be told that we have no courage – we were told in debate last week – Democrats don’t want to hear anymore about social media, violent video games, Hollywood, mental illness. “And they sure don’t want to hear anymore about prayers. They’re disgusted hearing about prayers. And they certainly don’t want to hear about fatherlessness, drug use. “Look, maybe …

“It actually puts an exclamation point on the fact that we have a two-tiered justice system. If you’re a Republican, you can’t even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they’re coming after you. They’re gonna bury you, they’re gonna put in a DC jail and terrorize you and torture you and not live up to the …

“I don’t think that it’s very effective for the children to have people on the other side of the aisle come in and accuse Republicans of being complicit in murder. “And that we put our right to kill over others’ right to live, to infer by rhetorical supposed questions, who are you here for, we must be here for the …

Roll Call reports: Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert’s decision to give up a safe Republican seat in the House take on a troubled state attorney general ended in defeat Tuesday, when he finished last in a four-person primary. A firebrand who led pre-Jan. 6 efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and has since denounced the “un-American and illegal treatment” …

The Texas Tribune reports: U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, announced Monday he is running for attorney general, challenging fellow Republican Ken Paxton, in the already crowded primary. “Texas I am officially running to be your next Attorney General and will enforce the rule of law,” Gohmert tweeted after announcing his campaign on Newsmax. Gohmert announced earlier this month that he …

The Texas Tribune reports: U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, is exploring a run for Texas attorney general, weighing a late entry into the already crowded primary to unseat GOP incumbent Ken Paxton. Gohmert said he will run if he can raise $1 million in the next 10 days. He announced his plans during an event Tuesday morning in Tyler that …

Rep. Louie Gohmert writes at American Greatness: Just as we saw with hydroxychloroquine last summer, government alphabet agencies, the medical industrial complex, and their willing accomplices in the media have recently made it clear that there is yet another safe, effective treatment for COVID-19 they wish to torpedo. It’s the latest naughty word which will get you censored on social …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) spoke at the Texas Youth Summit on Friday night and pushed unproven treatments for Covid-19, as opposed to the vaccine that can greatly reduce one’s chances of getting it or at least becoming hospitalized because of it. “The trouble is, these vaccines, they were only approved for emergency use,” he said. “Now you have …

“Part of that green deal is the huge solar farm that they have out on the border of California and Nevada. Thousands of acres of concave mirrors that magnify the sun toward three towers – heat up the liquid in there and turn turbines. “But they weren’t anticipating that there would be hundreds and thousands of what they would call …

Raw Story reports: Reps. Matt Gaetz (FL), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), and Louie Gohmert (TX) complained on Thursday after prison officials refused to allow them to enter a facility housing people who allegedly attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Conservative news outlets OAN and RSBN covered the lawmakers’ attempt to enter the facility. The stunt was billed as an …

The American Independent reports: Four far-right House Republicans have announced that they will hold a news conference outside the Department of Justice on Tuesday to demand “answers from Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland on the status of January 6th prisoners and related investigations.” Reps. Matt Gaetz (FL), Louie Gohmert (TX), Paul Gosar (AZ), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) say they …

Law & Crime reports: Two Republican lawmakers suing House officials over new security screening rules have hired attorney Ken Cuccinelli, one of former President Donald Trump’s most controversial political appointees, to represent them in their legal battle, according to court documents. Cuccinelli, the pugnacious former Attorney General of Virginia, was one of the most divisive figures of the Trump administration. …

The Daily Beast reports: Rep. Louie Gohmert celebrated New Year’s Eve 2020 by dropping several thousand dollars into the coffers of a vitriolically homophobic and antisemitic pastor, federal records indicate. But his office insists the whole thing was just a giant mistake. Team Gohmert claims it hired a Christian singer named Steve Amerson from Granada Hills, California, but accidentally reported …

The Hill reports: Two GOP lawmakers announced Monday that they have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of fines issued against them for failing to complete security screenings to enter the House chamber. Republican Reps. Louie Gohmert (Texas) and Andrew Clyde (Ga.) both tried to appeal the fines — which are $5,000 for the first offense and $10,000 for the …

The American Independent reports: While questioning FBI Director Christopher Wray during a session of the House Judiciary Committee, Gohmert claimed that on Jan. 5 he spoke to Capitol Police officers who he alleges told him they had been briefed on “online activity that there are people that are going to be coming that hate Trump, but they’re going to dress …

“I was informed by the director of NASA that they have found that the moon’s orbit is changing slightly and so is the earth’s orbit around the sun, and we know there’s been significant solar flare activity. “And so is there anything the National Forest Service or BLM [Bureau of Land Management] can do to change the course of the …

The Independent reports: “We were doing better on our SATs until President Carter created a Department of Education,” Rep Gohmert told the House, “[and] when I took it I did very well, it got me into the honors program at [Texas] A&M”. “I’m sure that shocks people that think I’m the dumbest guy in Congress.” Rep Gohmert’s complaints about the …