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UNITED STATES On Monday, April 19, Tom Fitton, founder and President of Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint against Congresswoman Maxine Waters over a speech she gave to Black Lives Matter protesters in Minneapolis, MN.
Fitton made reference to Waters stating that “Waters recently employed incendiary language in public comments on Sunday, April 18, in the middle of protests in Brooklynn Center Minnesota.”
In a letter written to David, Skaggs, Chairman of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCG), Fitton indicated that the letter is to serve as an “official complaint,” regarding “the highly questionable conduct of Representative Maxine Waters (CA-43).
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The House Ethics Committee must launch a preliminary investigation into House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters after a House GOP lawmaker filed a complaint with the panel.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican and a freshman, on Tuesday released a copy of her complaint against Waters that charged her with violating House ethics rules following comments the California Democrat made to protesters in the streets of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
“I write to request that the House Committee on Ethics open an investigation into Representative Maxine Waters for her incitement of the violent riots in Brooklyn Center, her unethical use of her office to unconstitutionally pressure an independent judiciary, and her pattern of similar behavior that is unbecoming of a Member of Congress and discredits the House of Representatives,” Boebert wrote to the bipartisan panel of 10 House lawmakers.
Rep. Paul Gosar fired back at the House Democrat who called for an ethics investigation of him over the Jan. 6 riot, calling her request baseless, defamatory and suggesting it could wind up in court.
In a 30-page response, Gosar, R-Ariz., said he exercised his free speech rights and strongly pushed back on allegations by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., that he helped instigate the violence at the U.S. Capitol. Know this: I have never instigated violence, he said in his formal response to the House Ethics Committee. I have no criminal record of any type. I have never aided or abetted violence. I have not urged or supported violence. A review of Jayapal’s unsupported, baseless, and fraudulent allegations suggest they are devoid of reality and smothered in Blue Anon conspiracy theories, ad hominem attacks, and baseless speculation.