


As RedState extensively covered, California Senator Alex Padilla (D-Idiot), while in Los Angeles on other business, decided to go uninvited to a press conference being held by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and then disrupt it. Padilla soon realized his version of "peaceful protest" would not fly in this venue. Padilla was quickly taken down by Secret Service and FBI agents, removed from the room, and handcuffed. As Sister Toldjah wrote:
Padilla, as RedState reported, tried to storm an LA press conference Thursday that featured DHS Secretary Kristi Noem speaking to the media about the Los Angeles riots and the ongoing ICE immigration sweeps being conducted in the city despite the riots. Noem reportedly was going to take questions after giving a statement, but apparently Padilla couldn't wait.
Videos show that Padilla's erratic, aggressive behavior seemed to alarm Secret Service and FBI agents, who forcibly led him out of the room as he resisted and took him down to the floor before handcuffing him.
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I could watch this on loop. As a former Californian who experienced the damage done by first Secretary of State and now-Senator Padilla and his corrupt circus act, I think bracelets and an orange jumpsuit best suit him.
Padilla and the Democrats are having cry fests and struggle sessions over the treatment given him, but Secretary Noem called it for what it is: political theater.
Now, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has weighed in. Johnson suggested that maybe a Senate censure would be appropriate. The House of Representatives has its measures to rebuke Congress members who act inappropriately, so perhaps the Senate should take it under consideration. Fox News' White House Correspondent Chad Pergram brought the question of this challenge to Johnson.
PERGRAM: You are the Speaker of the House and the constitutional officer of this branch.
JOHNSON: Yeah, and what of it?
PERGRAM: The idea that this is a Senate issue and these are members of Congress.
JOHNSON: The Senate does its disciplinary actions over there, and we do ours over here. We have a certain set of measures, as you all know, and it ranges from censure, to removal from committees, to ultimately expulsion from the body.
FEMALE REPORTER: Do you support that for the Senator?
JOHNSON: It's not my decision to make, I'm not in that chamber, but I do think it merits immediate attention by other colleagues over there, and I think that that behavior at a minimum, it rises to the level of a censure. I think there needs to be a message sent by the body as a whole that that is not what we're going to do, that's now how we're going to act. We're not going to have branches fighting physically and have Senators charging cabinet secretaries.
WATCH:
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Johnson appear to be sympatico on many things, so it seems as though Alex Padilla has entered the "FO" moment of the "FA."
Popping the popcorn, and we shall see.
But it is pretty clear: Aside from Thursday's pyrrhic (and also appealable) judicial victory that CA Governor Gavin Newsom gained to block Trump's deployment of the National Guard, the failed and feckless elected leaders of the state are having a no good, terrible, horrible, very bad week.
No one deserves it more than Newsom and Padilla... except maybe Nancy Pelosi.
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