PHOENIX — The Republican-controlled Arizona House of Representatives expelled a GOP member from the chamber Wednesday after an ethics committee concluded she committed “disorderly behavior” for lying about false testimony given during a February legislative hearing on elections.
The resolution to expel state Rep. Liz Harris, which passed with bipartisan support, said her conduct undermined the public’s confidence in the House, violated the “inherent obligation” to protect the chamber’s integrity, and “violated the order and decorum” needed to do the people’s work.
In February, a speaker invited by Harris to testify at the election-focused hearing baselessly accused Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, Republican House Speaker Ben Toma, Maricopa County leaders and local judges of accepting bribes from a drug cartel.
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The decision to punish Harris, a first-term lawmaker who represented an area east of Phoenix, amounted to a rare moment of Republicans holding one of their own to account for spreading false claims about elections and democratic institutions. Arizona has been a locus of baseless theories about supposedly fraudulent ballots.
The vote on Harris capped weeks of debate within the GOP caucus over how to handle the matter and followed last week’s expulsions of two Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee who interrupted statehouse proceedings by joining protesters calling for gun control after a mass killing. The two Tennessee lawmakers have since been reinstated by...
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