Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) still had some supporters go on the record to call him a hero after the House voted to censure him Wednesday.
The House brought the vote against Schiff over his role in promoting the theory that former President Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to win the White House. It was the 25th time in the House’s history that it censured a member, and the second attempt to censure Schiff personally.
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Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) went on the House floor just before the vote that successfully censured the 11-term California representative. Krishnamoorthi called the vote a “joke.”
“Today we’re voting on a joke of a measure to censure Adam Schiff, a true public servant and patriot,” Krishnamoorthi said. “I urge a strong ‘no’ against this resolution targeting a true American hero.”
Niskanen Center senior fellow Gabriel Schoenfeld appeared on Morning Joe Thursday to echo Schiff’s fellow House member. He said the vote to censure “worried” him.
“I think this is a very precarious moment for American democracy,” Schoenfeld said. “I think the censure of Adam Schiff is a kind of really a turning point or a landmark in this process, where a man who has actually played a heroic role in exposing the misdeeds of the Trump administration, exposing Donald Trump’s terrible behavior has been censured for — for doing basically the honest job of Congress.”
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Schoenfeld said the vote could open the door for Trump to take office again.
Reps. Ken Buck (R-CO), Michael Guest (R-MS), Dave Joyce (R-OH), John Rutherford (R-FL), and Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) did not vote to censure Schiff and opted instead to vote “present.”
