{"id":2446642,"date":"2025-06-12T17:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-march-on-gop-leaders-after-padillas-brutal-handcuffing\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T17:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T21:34:47","slug":"dems-march-on-gop-leaders-after-padillas-brutal-handcuffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-march-on-gop-leaders-after-padillas-brutal-handcuffing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems march on GOP leaders after Padilla&#8217;s &#8216;brutal handcuffing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-march-on-gop-leaders-after-padillas-brutal-handcuffing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2446642&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic lawmakers, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, organized a march to the offices of Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House speaker mike Johnson following the forceful handcuffing of Senator Alex Padilla during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-extends-southern-california-stay-at-home-order-for-at-least-another-three-weeks\/\" title=\"Newsom Extends Southern California Stay-at-Home Order For at Least Another Three Weeks\">press briefing<\/a>. Padilla had attempted to pose questions to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem when he was removed, sparking a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >heated partisan response<\/a>. Raskin condemned Padilla&#8217;s treatment, framing it as an attack on democratic principles, while others, including Rep. Jim McGovern and Rep. Maxwell Frost, called for accountability regarding the incident. In contrast, Speaker Johnson criticized Padilla&#8217;s actions as inappropriate and suggested the incident warranted censure. The situation has ignited important debate over accountability and the limits of acceptable behaviour among lawmakers.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Democrats march to Thune&rsquo;s and Johnson&rsquo;s offices after Padilla&rsquo;s &lsquo;brutal handcuffing&rsquo; at Noem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, &#039;Trump is a Tyrant&#039; (VIDEO)\">press conference<\/a><\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2146676\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Several Democratic lawmakers marched to Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-thune\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">John Thune<\/a>&lsquo;s (R-SD) and House Speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mike Johnson<\/a>&lsquo;s (R-LA) offices after Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was wrestled out of a Department of Homeland Security press briefing and handcuffed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Padilla&rsquo;s detainment, which came after he attempted to ask questions at a press conference given by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, immediately lit a partisan fuse in Congress.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3440269\/stephen-miller-senate-gop-border-wall-funding-rand-paul\/\">GOP senators snap at Stephen Miller over Trump border wall funding<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3440321\/alex-padilla-responds-forcible-removal-kristi-noem-press-conference\/\">Padilla responds to removal from Noem press conference: &lsquo;&#8203;&#8203;We will hold this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-snap-at-stephen-miller-over-trump-border-wall-funding-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"GOP ...s snap at Stephen Miller over Trump border wall funding - Washington Examiner\">administration accountable&#038;rsquo<\/a>;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3440219\/watch-live-senator-padilla-speaks-forcibly-removed-kristi-noem-los-angeles\/\">WATCH LIVE: Alex Padilla speaks after being forcibly removed from Kristi Noem event<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;The brutal handcuffing of Senator Padilla is an affront to democracy. I&rsquo;m joining House Democrats to march to Senator Thune&rsquo;s office and to demand that he protect his Colleagues from this out-of-control authoritarian onslaught,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepRaskin\/status\/1933260695908561311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Rep. Jamie Raskin<\/a> (D-MD) posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) said Thune was not in his office at the time, noting that his staff had not provided a time for his return.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The brutal handcuffing of Senator Padilla is an affront to democracy. I&rsquo;m joining House Democrats to march to Senator Thune&rsquo;s office and to demand that he protect his Colleagues from this out-of-control authoritarian onslaught. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G8zl8NvKJd\">pic.twitter.com\/G8zl8NvKJd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRaskin\/status\/1933260695908561311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MaxwellFrostFL\/status\/1933257720813199600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">wrote,<\/a> &ldquo;We are marching to Senator Thune&rsquo;s office. There must be accountability for the detainment of a Senator. This is not normal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MicaSoellnerDC\/status\/1933257763838189716\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">called Padilla&rsquo;s<\/a> actions &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/making-or-breaking-nato-end-of-russia-ukraine-war-could-signal-new-beginning-for-europe-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Making or breaking NATO: End of Russia-Ukraine war could signal new beginning for Europe - Washington Examiner\">highly inappropriate&#038;rdquo<\/a>; and said the &ldquo;behavior, at a minimum, rises to the level of a censure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have to turn the temperature down. We need to be on the side of the rule of law,&rdquo; the speaker said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpeakerJohnson<\/a>: &#8220;It was wildly inappropriate. You don&#8217;t charge a sitting cabinet secretary&hellip;A sitting Member of Congress should not act like that&hellip;that behavior at a minimum it rises to the level of a censure.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FzL1z4WmNi\">pic.twitter.com\/FzL1z4WmNi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1933262191429292537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3440321\/alex-padilla-responds-forcible-removal-kristi-noem-press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">PADILLA RESPONDS TO REMOVAL FROM NOEM PRESS CONFERENCE: &lsquo;WE WILL HOLD THIS ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTABLE&rsquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ReporterCioffi\/status\/1933266415491993858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">speaking outside<\/a> Johnson&rsquo;s office, said the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has &ldquo;grave concerns when the speaker of the House refers to a sitting member of the U.S. Senate who simply tried to exercise his First Amendment rights as acting like a thug.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Johnson&rsquo;s comments on censuring Padilla, McGovern said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m afraid to respond to that&hellip;. Speaker Johnson needs to grow a set of balls and stand up to the White House.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2146676\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2146676\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats protest at Thune&#8217;s and Johnson&#8217;s offices after Padilla&#8217;s handcuffing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2446643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/alex-padilla.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3933,48906,57053,22861,4542],"class_list":["post-2446642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-dems","tag-gop-leaders","tag-handcuffing","tag-padilla","tag-protest"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/alex-padilla.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446646,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446642\/revisions\/2446646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2446643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}