Nadler urges GOP to join Dems in censuring Trump
A Brooklyn congressman is leading the bold step to defy a sitting president in an official censure vote in the House of Representatives. If successful, it will be the first time since 1848 that the House has taken such an action.
In an extraordinary rebuke to a president, U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst-Upper West Side) and two of his Democratic colleagues are making plans to introduce a resolution of censure against President Donald Trump over his comments following the violence in Charlottesville.
A presidential censure is a rarely used act of Congress. It serves as an official reprimand of a commander-in-chief over actions the president has taken.
In 1834, the Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson, charging him with withholding documents relating to a move to re-charter the Bank of the U.S. President James Polk was subjected to a censure vote in the House in 1848 over the Mexican-American War.