The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus knowledgeable lawmakers on Wednesday that he intends to file a decision to censure Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) after the Louisiana Republican known as Haitians “wild” and referred to their homeland because the “nastiest nation within the western hemisphere.”
“Lol. These Haitians are wild. Consuming pets, vudu [sic], nastiest nation within the western hemisphere, cults slapstick gangsters … however damned in the event that they don’t really feel all subtle now, submitting prices in opposition to our President and VP,” Higgins wrote on X.
“All these thugs higher get their thoughts proper and their ass out of our nation earlier than January twentieth,” he added.
Higgins deleted the submit a short while later, after apparently being confronted about it by a number of colleagues.
Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), the pinnacle of the Congressional Black Caucus, reportedly went as much as Higgins on the Home ground and demanded that the tweet be taken down earlier than he introduced his intention to censure the GOP rep.
“I might hope that each member of this physique understands that no particular person, significantly those that contribute to communities, who’re entrepreneurial, who give to our communities by being nurses and first responders and academics, that these people, these youngsters, now not must reside in worry or intimidation due to any phrases or posts that come from members of this physique,” Horsford stated on the Home ground.
“It’s time to finish hate and the rhetoric of hate,” he added. “It’s not turning into on any member to proceed to push one of these rhetoric on any platform, not to mention from the Home of Representatives.”
Horsford then requested lawmakers to simply accept his movement to censure Higgins – for “bringing discredit and shame” to the decrease chamber – by unanimous consent.
Home Majority Chief Steve Scalise (R-La.) objected to the movement.
“Initially, the tweet has been deleted already and eliminated,” Scalise stated.
“If we need to undergo each remark and tweet from the opposite facet we’ll be joyful to do it, and you may be appalled by among the issues that haven’t been eliminated,” he argued.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) advised reporters that he had spoken with Higgins about that tweet and indicated that his Louisiana colleague “regretted it.”
“He was approached on the ground by colleagues who stated that was offensive,” Johnson stated. “He went to the again — I simply talked to him about it — he stated he went to the again and he prayed about it, and he regretted it, and he pulled the submit down.”
“I’m certain he most likely regrets the language he used. However you understand, we transfer ahead. We consider in redemption round right here,” the Home speaker added, noting that Higgins is “an expensive buddy” and “very frank and outspoken.”
Higgins, 63, has served as Louisiana’s third Congressional District rep since 2017.
He beforehand labored in legislation enforcement within the Bayou State, the place he was generally known as the “Cajun John Wayne” and gained notoriety for viral “Crime Stoppers” movies.
Within the movies, Higgins – tough-talking and holding a rifle – would typically discuss with suspected criminals as “animals” and “thugs.”
The Put up has reached out to Higgins and Horsford for remark.
