Lead impeachment manager for Donald Trumpā€™s second House trial, January 6 committee member, cancer survivor, and nowā€”copy editor? Congressman Jamie Raskin added another line to his lengthy resume on Friday in a tart response to embattled New York Representative George Santos, who had penned a poorly written letter thanking the Maryland Democrat for voting against kicking him out of the House of Representatives.

Santosā€™s letter came two days after most Republicans and 31 Democrats voted against a resolution led by five of Santosā€™s fellow first-term New York Republicans who have been anxious to distance themselves from their disgraced colleague. The 179-213 tally fell far below the two-thirds majority needed to expel a House member.

ā€œI am writing to express my gratitude to you for standing up to the principals of due process and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty,ā€ Santos wrote. In copy edits handwritten on his copy of the letter and later reported by Politico, Raskin cheekily let Santos know that ā€œprincipalsā€ should have been ā€œprinciples.ā€

ā€œDear Congressman Santos, I appreciate your note and only wish someone had proofread it first,ā€ Raskin wrote. ā€œMeantime, you should apologize to the people of New York for all of your lies and deceit. I know you must have thought you could get away with it all in the party of Trump, but the truth is resilient.ā€ The Maryland representative ended the letter with a ā€œP.S.ā€: ā€œItā€™s not shameful to resign.ā€

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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    The idea is to not set a precedent that a member of the House can be removed before being found guilty of a crime. Heā€™s also at least trying to stop the GOP from employing their usual tactics of ā€œDo what the Democrats did to us, only dumberā€ and filing random retaliatory motions to expel outspoken Democrats like Tlaib.

    He wasnā€™t voting in favor of Santos. He was voting against opening Pandoraā€™s box.

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      He wasnā€™t voting in favor of Santos. He was voting against opening Pandoraā€™s box.

      You say that as if Republicans wouldnā€™t just gleefully throw it open the first chance they got anyway.

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        I know itā€™s easy to lump all of the Republicans together as a crazy bunch of morons, but thereā€™s a handful of them that posess a functioning brain and are just evil. It seems like Raskin has a functioning brain and understands this action might have consequences for his party later down the line.

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      And honestly keeping him around causes a certain amount of chaos that is damaging to the Republican brand. Not sure if thatā€™s the intent buts itā€™s certainly a welcome side effect.