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House punishes Republican lawmaker who promoted violent conspiracy theories



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Democrats in the House voted to strip freshman Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of some of her responsibilities Thursday, citing her penchant for violent, anti-democratic and at times anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
Greene has expressed support for a range of alarming conspiracies, including the belief that the 2018 Parkland school shooting that killed 17 people was a “false flag.” That belief prompted two teachers unions to call for her removal from the House Education Committee — one of her new committee assignments.
The vote on a resolution to remove Greene from her committee assignments broke along party lines, with nearly all Republicans opposing the …

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