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After Jewish students at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, were taunted with anti-Semitic slurs and pelted with fake blood, administrators encouraged them to “hide their Jewish identity to avoid being targeted,” according to a federal civil rights complaint filed against the school on Thursday.

The students said pro-Hamas activists harassed them as they celebrated the High Holiday of Sukkot, holding a demonstration next to their religious ceremony and chalking “inflammatory anti-Semitic messages” near the religious service, “including ‘Go Away Nazis.’”

In other incidents, the activists disrupted a vigil for victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks by drawing a “Zio Corner” chalk circle around it and throwing red paint at Jewish students meant to represent the “blood of martyrs,” according to the complaint. In response, Cal Poly Humboldt suggested that the students could avoid such incidents by appearing less Jewish, the complaint states.

“The message from the University to Jewish students is clear: downplay your Jewish identity on campus or hide to avoid being targeted because the University will not protect you,” states the complaint, which the Brandeis Center filed to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights alongside the Anti-Defamation League and StandWithUs.

The news comes one day after Trump’s Department of Justice launched a sweeping anti-Semitism investigation into the University of California public school system’s alleged “pattern or practice of discrimination” against Jewish students. Cal Poly Humboldt, though, is not part of the UC system, suggesting that problems with anti-Semitism extend beyond the Golden State’s primary university system.

Much of the anti-Semitic harassment at Cal Poly Humboldt appeared to target the campus Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish religious organization that serves as a community hub for Jewish students.

Zachary Mink, a Jewish senior at Cal Poly Humboldt, said he faced unrelenting harassment after writing an opinion column for the student newspaper about his discomfort with pro-Hamas activism on campus. He said the harassment was so intense that it drove him to hide his face with a mask and hoodie on campus, lodge a civil rights complaint with the school, and finish his coursework online.

“I told myself, I’m doing school online, I can’t handle this,” Mink told the Washington Free Beacon. “I couldn’t complete assignments, just from the harassment I was experiencing by my peers I had to see every day.”

In addition to Cal Poly Humboldt, the Brandeis Center filed similar complaints targeting Scripps College and the Etiwanda School District, both of which are based in California. Those complaints detail similar incidents. Jewish students at Scripps, for example, said they were criticized for wearing identifiably religious items, such as Star of David necklaces. Students viewed as “Zionists” were also reportedly barred from holding meetings or working at the student-run union hall.

“I stopped wearing anything that would identify me as a Jew. I regret not transferring to a school that takes the concerns of Jewish students seriously,” said one student in the complaint.

At Etiwanda Intermediate School, meanwhile, a 12-year-old girl was repeatedly harassed by other students who hit her with sticks, joked about Nazi Germany, and told her to “shut [her] stupid Jewish ass up,” according to the complaint. The school “had notice of this hostile environment, and failed to take reasonable responsive action to eliminate the hostile environment and prevent its recurrence,” the complaint states.

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Nearly half the radical activists arrested Wednesday after storming a Barnard College library are Columbia University students, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

Of the nine individuals arrested after storming Millstein Library, four are Columbia students: Gabrielle Wimer, Hannah Puelle, Yunseo Chung, and Symmes Cannon. One, Tramy Dong, is a Barnard student. Another, Christopher Holmes, attends Union Theological Seminary, a Columbia affiliate, while the remaining three appear unassociated with either school. They were charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing, and obstructing governmental administration, according to an NYPD spokesman.

Barnard president Laura Ann Rosenbury, however, stressed that the police weren’t called in because the radicals stormed Milstein Library. Rather, she felt the building needed to be cleared to protect the broader student body because of a bomb threat in the building.

The radicals rushed in through a back exit that an accomplice held open, hoisted an effigy of Rosenbury, and passed out Hamas propaganda. They refused to leave, even after they were alerted of the bomb threat. Law enforcement eventually cleared the agitators from the library, but the protesters refused to clear the courtyard outside and clashed with police. Officers began making arrests.

Wimer is a medical student at Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. According to her screenshots of her LinkedIn that has since been deleted, she is “passionate about global health and human rights” and has “experience in research, program management, and community outreach in multicultural settings.” Wimer is the Class of 2025 president, the programming coordinator for Columbia’s Human Rights and Asylum Clinic, and an active member of Columbia’s chapters of White Coats for Black Lives and Students for a National Health Program, according to an online bio.

Puelle is a Columbia senior studying philosophy and sociology. The Columbia Undergraduate Law Review website listed her as its publisher, but the page was removed Thursday afternoon. Puelle is also a research assistant at Columbia’s Labor Lab, according to her LinkedIn. A source familiar with Puelle said she was a resident adviser in the first-year residence dormitory John Jay Hall. She is also a member of Columbia’s Resident Advisers Collective Bargaining Committee, according to the Columbia Spectator.

The third, Chung, is a Columbia junior pursuing her bachelor’s degree in English and Women’s and Gender Studies. According to a screenshot of her LinkedIn taken before it was deleted, she is involved in Columbia’s Criminal Justice Coalition and Columbia’s Queer Alliance and was the valedictorian of the high school she attended.

Cannon is the deputy editor of Columbia Spectator’s weekly magazine, the Eye, but the page appears to have been removed.

Even though it was a Barnard building that was stormed, the focus will likely center more on Columbia because its students make up the bulk of those arrested. Since President Donald Trump took office, the university has taken a more aggressive posture toward its anti-Semitic students. In the past, however, it has been lenient. It dropped the vast majority of the suspensions leveled against students who participated in illegal anti-Israel protests last spring, for example.

“We have been notified that four Columbia students were arrested as part of yesterday’s disruption at Barnard’s Milstein Library and we are working swiftly through our discipline process. We regret that members of our community participated in this unacceptable disruption at Barnard,” a Columbia spokeswoman told the Free Beacon. “Any violations of our rules, policies, and of the law must have consequences. We remain committed to supporting our Columbia student body of over 36,000 students and our greater campus community during this challenging time.”

Columbia students Wimer, Puelle, Chung, and Cannon did not respond to requests for comment.

The only Barnard student arrested, Dong, is a junior studying computer science. She was listed as a communications intern with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a nonprofit organization working to “fight against mass surveillance in New York and beyond”—the group’s intern page was removed Thursday afternoon. According to an online bio, which was also removed, Dong is “interested in the intersection of technology and activism, hoping to learn more about surveillance systems and possible solutions.” According to her LinkedIn, she is part of Barnard’s Science Pathways Scholars Program, a “highly selective four-year program that supports young students from low-income or first-generation households.”

Dong did not respond to a request for comment.

Barnard’s vice president for development and alumnae relations Michael Farley, however, in a statement claimed that “none of the individuals arrested on our campus Wednesday evening are Barnard students.” It is unclear if Dong was one of the two students the college expelled for storming an Israeli history class at Columbia in January and targeting Jewish students with anti-Semitic flyers. Barnard did not respond to a request for comment.

The radicals stormed Barnard’s Milbank Hall last week to protest those expulsions. A third Barnard student was expelled soon after for storming a Columbia building last spring. The agitators behind Wednesday’s incident demanded the reversal of all three.

A mob led by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) and Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)—the Ivy League institution’s most anti-Semitic student groups—stormed Barnard’s Milbank Hall on Feb. 26, sending a security guard to the hospital and causing $30,000 in damages. CUAD and SJP also took credit for orchestrating Wednesday’s incident at the Milstein Library.

Once inside, the agitators handed out Hamas propaganda justifying the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack. They demanded the immediate reversal of the Barnard students’ expulsions, “amnesty for all students disciplined for pro-Palestine action,” and a complete “abolition of the corrupt Barnard disciplinary process.” They also renamed the library after Hussam Abu Safiya, a Gaza hospital director the Israel Defense Forces accused of being a terrorist and holding a rank in Hamas.

Even though the agitators voted to stay overnight, until Rosenbury returned to campus in the morning, a bomb threat reported in the building forced Barnard vice president for strategic communications Robin Levine to try to evacuate the library. She told students, “You need to leave now, this is not a joke,” but the protesters refused to vacate the building, telling her, “you’re lying” and “prove it.”

NYPD Strategic Response Group officers were called to the scene and entered the occupied building, pushing most of the activists off campus. Those who resisted were among the nine arrested.

Holmes is a 26-year-old graduate student at the Columbia affiliate college Union Theological Seminary. He was arrested twice at Columbia during last spring’s illegal pro-Hamas encampments, once on April 18 and again on April 30 over the violent occupation of Hamilton Hall and was charged with third degree criminal trespass. In September, Holmes was featured in a video posted to X where he called for “the overthrow of the corporate totalitarian state.”

The last individuals arrested are 21-year-old Pranavi Davuluri, a student worker at New York City’s School of Visual Arts, according to her LinkedIn, Alexander Nanci-Marr, 20, and Allison Wuu, 18.

In a statement sent to the Barnard community, Rosenbury said that the decision to allow NYPD on campus was due to the bomb threat, not the occupation of the campus library.

“The safety of our campus, and every single person on our campus, must be protected above all else. The moment we received the bomb threat, we had to clear the Milstein Center and inform the authorities,” she said. “The decision to request NYPD assistance was guided and informed entirely by the absolute obligation we have to keep every member of our community safe.”

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The interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia is demanding that Georgetown Law School dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, warning that his office will not hire anyone from universities that implement DEI policies.

In a letter this week addressed to Georgetown Law dean William Treanor, Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin said DEI programs are “unacceptable” and said he will investigate the institution for promoting DEI. “First, have you eliminated all DEI from your school and its curriculum?” Martin asked. “Second, if DEI is found in your courses or teaching in anyway [sic], will you move swiftly to remove it?”

Martin noted that, “at this time, no applicant for our fellows program, our summer internship, or employment in our office who is a student or affiliated with a law school or university that continues to teach and utilize DEI will be considered.”

The letter comes amid the Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate DEI and reinstate a race-blind, merit-based system. Trump, who in an executive order called the Biden administration’s DEI initiatives “illegal and immoral discrimination programs,” has signed orders banning DEI in all federal agencies and the military.

The Department of Education last month threatened to pull federal funding from universities unless they eliminate DEI and “racial preferences” in admissions, financial aid, and hiring. The Trump administration has also launched an online portal called “End DEI,” allowing citizens to report DEI practices in public schools.

Georgetown spokeswoman Meghan Dubyak in a statement to the Washington Post defended the university’s DEI programs, saying they are “protected by the First Amendment.”

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Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, an initiative funded by the left-wing William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, quietly deleted online references to its deputy director, Helyeh Doutaghi, who is also a member of the U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising entity Samidoun.

The entirety of the Yale Law School webpage for the project was inaccessible just before noon on Thursday. It came back online a few hours later with an updated “Directors and Staff” section that no longer includes Doutaghi. The Samidoun member’s Yale Law School biography, which describes Doutaghi’s research on “Marxian and postcolonial critiques of law, sanctions, and international political economy,” has also been pulled from the web.

Likewise, the Law and Political Economy Project’s “Our Team” page, which as of last month listed Doutaghi as its deputy director and an associate research scholar at Yale Law School, now includes a cartoon image of a political “fat cat” smoking a cigar and carrying a cane alongside the message, “Sorry, but the page you were trying to view does not exist.”

The scrubbing of Doutaghi’s online record—Doutaghi herself deleted her LinkedIn account and set her X profile to private—comes days after the Washington Free Beacon reported on her status as a member of Samidoun, an anti-Semitic organization that the U.S. government described as a “sham charity” and “front organization” for the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) when it slapped sanctions on the group in October. Yale said on Tuesday that it had placed Doutaghi on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation.

The Hewlett Foundation, which funds the Law and Political Economy Project, has not responded to requests for comment. Launched in 2019 in response to the election of President Donald Trump, the project says that it aims to counter “right-wing movements and autocrats.”

It is a “network of scholars, practitioners, and students” who “work to understand the relationship between market supremacy and racial, gender, and economic justice” and “explore the distinctive ways that law gives shape to and legitimates neoliberal capitalism.”

The Hewlett Foundation’s grant extends through July and aims to “develop LPE into a wide-ranging shift that will change the way law is studied and taught, the public discussion of legal and political institutions and power, and law’s role in policymaking and political mobilization.”

Samidoun’s website indicates that Doutaghi spoke in Iran at a Samidoun-sponsored screening of Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight. The film honors the Lebanese terrorist Georges Abdallah who was sentenced to life in prison in France for his role in the 1982 murders of U.S. military attaché Charles Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov.

Doutaghi also traveled with Samidoun to Venezuela for a 2023 “fact-finding mission” aimed at observing the impact of “U.S. sanctions and coercive economic measures.” She was scheduled to speak on an October panel alongside PFLP member Khaled Barakat, whom the United States has also sanctioned in his capacity as a PFLP leader. The panel was meant to discuss how Israel “intensified the ongoing genocide by assassinating Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas,” but the panel was postponed indefinitely.

Yale Law School senior associate director for public affairs Alden Ferro said the school scrubbed mentions of Doutaghi “as a result of the administrative leave.” He also said the school’s webpage for the Law and Political Economy Project was never taken offline and, presented with a screenshot to the contrary, blamed “a redirect error or other glitch as sometimes happens.”

Some on Capitol Hill have argued that Doutaghi’s presence at Yale should disqualify the Ivy League institution from receiving taxpayer funds.

“Schools like Yale that coddle anti-Semitic extremists in their student body or faculty should not see a dime of federal funding,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) told the Free Beacon on Tuesday.

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A Washington, D.C., man convicted of murder in 1995 and freed early under a controversial criminal justice reform law was found guilty this week of a second murder he committed six months after his 2020 release.

A jury on Tuesday convicted Darrell Moore, who was released after serving 25 years for the 1995 murder, of the premeditated first-degree murder of Julius Hayes in April 2021, according to the Washington Post.

The law that facilitated Moore’s release has faced criticism since the D.C. Council passed it in 2016. The Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act (IRAA) allows for the early release of felons—even those convicted of murder, rape, and child sex abuse—who were under 25 years old when they committed the crime, have already served 15 years, and have had only minor infractions while incarcerated.

Those who qualify are among “the absolute most violent and dangerous offenders,” then-U.S. attorney Jessie Liu said in 2019, when the city expanded the program to cover felons under the age of 25. So far, 368 of the nearly 600 eligible felons have been released early under the law, and 11 have already been convicted of new crimes, according to the Post.

As a teenager, Moore was sentenced to 66 years to life in prison after he and a group of robbers broke into an apartment, killed a teenage girl who was kneeling to pray, and wounded two others. Obama-appointed Superior Court judge Robert Okun granted Moore’s early release in 2020 under the IRAA. Moore shot and killed Hayes six months later.

This is not the first time Okun has released an offender early who went on to face murder charges. Michael Garrett was sentenced in 1999 to at least 24 years for multiple robbery and assault charges related to his decades-long stalking of Sylvia Matthews. Despite opposition from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Okun granted Garrett “compassionate release” in 2021, as COVID-19 spread through his prison. Police arrested Garrett later that year for murdering Matthews—more than two decades after a jury convicted Garrett of assaulting her.

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California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) said Thursday that biological men participating in women’s sports is “an issue of fairness.” He criticized Caitlyn Jenner for a nearly identical comment just a few years earlier.

“You right now should come out and be like, ‘You know what? The young man who’s about to win the state championship in the long jump in female sports—that shouldn’t happen,” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said on the inaugural episode of the governor’s podcast, This Is Gavin Newsom. “You, as the governor, should step up and say, ‘No.’ Would you do something like that? Would you say, ‘No men in female sports’?”

“I think it’s an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. So that’s easy to call out—the unfairness of that,” Newsom responded. “I revere sports, and so the issue of fairness is completely legit.”

That remark echoes comments Jenner made in 2021—comments Newsom rejected.

“This is a question of fairness,” the Olympic gold medalist and transgender woman said at the time. “That’s why I oppose biological boys who are trans competing in girls’ sports in school. It just isn’t fair, and we have to protect girls’ sports in our schools.”

An unnamed spokesman for Newsom pushed back at the time, telling Fox News that California already allows students to “participate in activities consistent with their gender identity” and that the state “isn’t going backwards on these issues.”

Newsom wants to ensure “trans Californians are fully acknowledged in accordance with their gender identity while interacting with public services,” the spokesman added.

Equality California, an LGBT advocacy group, even used Newsom’s support for transgender children to rally support for the governor as he faced a 2021 recall election.

“Here are the facts: @Caitlyn_Jenner is willing to sacrifice the health & well-being of #trans kids to win votes,” the group posted on X. “@GavinNewsom is not. It’s that simple.”

On Monday, Democrats blocked a Senate bill that aimed to bar biological boys and men from competing in female sports. When asked about Newsom’s comments, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said, “What Democrats opposed was unleashing sexual predators on girls throughout the United States.”

Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential hopeful, aims to use his podcast to air discussions with conservative and MAGA voices. The move comes as Democrats and political observers blame a right-wing media ecosphere for their losses in the November election.

Newsom has regularly been seen as an ally for transgender issues more broadly. In 2023, he dismissed concerns of children secretly transitioning in school, calling it “one of the greatest distractions.” A year later, he signed an unpopular bill banning schools from alerting parents if their child decided to socially transition their gender.

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ActBlue, the leading fundraising platform for Democrats, is in disarray after at least seven senior officials resigned and a company lawyer alleged that the platform had retaliated against him, the New York Times reported.

The exodus comes as congressional Republicans investigate ActBlue’s security and fraud-prevention measures, including to what degree it works to block illegal foreign donations. Among those who have left are longtime ActBlue officials, such as the associate general counsel and chief revenue officer, though the exact reasons for their departures remain unclear, according to the Times.

The upheaval deals a heavy blow to the Democratic Party, as ActBlue has long played a pivotal role in fundraising for Democratic candidates at all levels. ActBlue said it has helped raise more than $16 billion for Democratic campaigns since 2004.

Zain Ahmad, who as of February 26 was the only remaining lawyer in ActBlue’s general counsel’s office, alleged that the company had revoked his access to email and other internal platforms and deleted some of his Slack messages, the Times reported.

“Please be advised that we have Anti-Retaliation and Whistleblower Policies for a reason,” Ahmad wrote to ActBlue.

Ahmad is now on leave, a source told the Times.

Two unions representing ActBlue’s workers called Ahmad’s allegations “unsettling and disturbing, and part of a growing pattern of volatility and toxicity stemming from current leadership.”

In a letter sent last week to ActBlue’s board of directors, the unions warned of an “alarming pattern” of high-level departures that was “eroding our confidence in the stability of the organization.” The letter also urged the board to hire an independent investigator to assess “the current state of the organization and evaluate if our C.E.O. is doing her job in an appropriate, competent and responsible manner.”

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The Trump administration is weighing a plan to intercept and inspect Iranian oil tankers at sea as part of an international agreement that aims to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction, Reuters reported.

The proposal, part of President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign to stop Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, would allow allied nations to examine vessels passing through important shipping channels such as the Malacca Strait in the Indian Ocean. The move could disrupt Iran’s shipments of crude oil, a critical revenue stream for the Islamic Republic, sources told Reuters.

Since his return to the White House, Trump has imposed fresh sanctions on Iran, targeting companies that transport oil from and to U.S.-sanctioned countries. During former president Joe Biden’s term, Iran managed to increase oil exports through its smuggling networks, according to Reuters.

Trump officials are assessing whether the plan could be implemented under the Proliferation Security Initiative, a U.S.-led agreement launched in 2003 and signed by more than 100 governments to combat the trafficking of WMDs.

“You don’t have to sink ships or arrest people to have that chilling effect that this is just not worth the risk,” a source told Reuters, saying that delays alone could destabilize Iran’s smuggling networks.

Former national security adviser John Bolton, who helped negotiate the the Proliferation Security Initiative’s formation, said “it would be fully justified” to use the agreement to disrupt Iran’s crude exports, arguing that oil sales are “critical to raise revenue for the government of Iran to conduct both its [nuclear] proliferation activities and support for terrorism.”

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It’s been almost six years since the delinquent child activist Greta Thunberg promoted a so-called scientist’s warning that “climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels” by 2023. The scientist in question, Harvard University professor James Anderson, also predicted “there will be no floating ice remaining” in the Arctic Ocean by 2022 absent a “Marshall Plan-style endeavor in which all of the world takes extreme measures to to transition off of fossil fuels completely within the next five years.” That didn’t happen, but climate activists are still warning that the Arctic could be ice-free at some point between 2035 and 2067.

Not surprisingly, there is a long history—dating back to the 1970s—of so-called climate scientists and government bureaucrats making catastrophic predictions about the environment that never materialized. Here are 10 of the most egregious examples. Enjoy!

1) In 1970, S. Dillon Ripley, a wildlife conservationist who served as secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, warned that 75 percent to 80 percent of species would be extinct by 1995. Wrong.

2) In 1970, Kenneth Watt, an ecologist and professor at the University of California, Davis, warned that “there won’t be any more crude oil,” that “none of our land will be usable” for agriculture, and the world would be 11 degrees colder by the year 2000. False.

3) In 1970, biologist Paul Ehrlich at Stanford University warned that by the end of the decade up to 200 million people would die each year from starvation due to overpopulation, life expectancy would plummet to 42 years, and all ocean life would perish. Extremely false.

4) In 1970, Peter Gunter, a professor at North Texas State University, predicted that “world population will outrun food supplies” and “the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine” by the year 2000. Didn’t happen.

5) In 1971, Dr. S. I. Rasool, an atmospheric scientist at NASA, predicted the coming of a “new ice age” within 50 years. Incorrect.

6) In 1975, Ehrlich, the Stanford biologist, warned that 90 percent of tropical rainforests and 50 percent of species would disappear within 30 years. Erroneous. 

7) In 1988, Hussein Shihab, environmental affairs director of the Maldives, warned that his island nation would be completely underwater within 30 years, which wouldn’t even matter because experts also predicted the Maldives would run out of drinking water by 1992. False.

8) In 2004, a Pentagon analysis warned of global anarchy due to climate change. Major European cities would be underwater by 2020, at which point Britain would suffer from a “Siberian” climate. Extremely false.

9) In 2008, Bob Woodruff of ABC News hosted a two-hour climate change special warning that New York City could be underwater by 2015, among other apocalyptic predictions. Didn’t happen.

10) In 2009, former vice president and climate activist Al Gore predicted the Arctic Ocean would have no ice by 2014, which is the same thing Greta Thunberg said would happen by 2022. Nope.

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Democrats sang “We Shall Overcome” on the House floor Thursday morning after the chamber voted to censure Rep. Al Green (D., Texas) for shaking his cane and heckling President Donald Trump’s Tuesday congressional address.

Ten Democrats joined Republicans in a 224-198 vote to censure Green, after which multiple Democrats started singing the protest song.

The House then erupted into a shouting match, Punchbowl News‘s Jake Sherman reported.

Green’s heckling began just minutes into Trump’s address, when the president declared his electoral victory a “mandate.” Even after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) warned Green multiple times, the Texas congressman kept shouting and waving his cane in protest, leading Johnson to expel Green from the chamber.

The Texas congressman, a longtime critic of Trump, has made several failed attempts to impeach the president, filing articles in December 2017, January 2018, and July 2019. Each attempt was overwhelmingly blocked by the House, with 137 Democrats joining Republicans to block Green’s July 2019 proposal.

Green last month filed impeachment articles again, this time for “dastardly deeds.” He told reporters following his ejection that he was still working on impeachment articles.

Trump told Fox News’s Brooke Singman following the vote that Green “should be forced to pass an IQ test.”

Green on Wednesday defended his heckling, saying, “I would do it again.”

Republican congressman Dan Newhouse (Wash.), who was the first to formally introduce a censure resolution against Green, condemned Green’s “sheer disregard” for “decorum and order” in Congress, calling the Democrat’s heckling as “one of the most shameful acts that I’ve ever seen on this floor.”

Green “has made history in a terrible way,” Johnson told reporters. “If they want to make a 77-year-old heckling congressman the face of their resistance, if that’s the Democrat Party, so be it. But we will not tolerate it on the House floor.”

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