{"id":2512484,"date":"2025-11-19T17:34:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-continues-to-defend-plaskett-and-condemn-dramatic-overreach-in-censure-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:36:01","slug":"jeffries-continues-to-defend-plaskett-and-condemn-dramatic-overreach-in-censure-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-continues-to-defend-plaskett-and-condemn-dramatic-overreach-in-censure-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries continues to defend Plaskett and condemn &#8216;dramatic overreach&#8217; in censure vote"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fjeffries-continues-to-defend-plaskett-and-condemn-dramatic-overreach-in-censure-vote%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=2512484&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>Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) defended the bipartisan decision to reject a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sasse-addresses-state-gop-officials-ahead-of-potential-censure-trump-lied-to-you\/\" title=\"Sasse Addresses State GOP Officials Ahead Of Potential ...: Trump \u2018Lied To You\u2019\">censure resolution<\/a> targeting Representative Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) related to her 2019 communications with the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffries criticized Representative Ralph Norman (R-SC) for proposing the censure as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-white-house-uninterested-in-honoring-nashville-shooting-victims\/\" title=\"Biden White ... Uninterested in Honoring Nashville Shooting Victims\">political stunt aimed<\/a> at appealing to South Carolina voters.The resolution was defeated as it was seen as an excessive measure, especially as it involved removing Plaskett from her House committees. The controversy arose after texts between Epstein and plaskett were revealed during a House Oversight Committee hearing. Plaskett has maintained that Epstein was a constituent and condemned his criminal actions, donating any campaign contributions from him to charity. Additionally, the House voted against referring Plaskett to the Ethics Committee.  <\/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\">Jeffries continues to defend Plaskett and condemn &lsquo;dramatic overreach&rsquo; in censure vote<\/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\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2407731\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Minority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3476288\/kevin-mccarthy-democrats-never-asked-epstein-files-speaker\/\">Hakeem Jeffries <\/a>(D-NY) defended the bipartisan <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3891123\/ralph-norman-house-censure-resolution-virgin-islands-stacey-plaskett-epstein-texts\/\">vote against a censure<\/a> &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-life-orgs-demand-gop-repeal-face-act-asap\/\" title=\"Pro-Life Orgs Demand GOP Repeal FACE Act \u2018ASAP\u2019\">targeting&#038;rdquo<\/a>; Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries accused Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) of creating a &ldquo;political stunt by a desperate, failed candidate for governor trying to pander to the people back in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/south-carolina\/\">South Carolina<\/a>&rdquo; on Tuesday in filing the resolution to censure Plaskett.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3892352\/nancy-mace-moves-censure-cory-mills-house-outrage-dc-swamp\/\">Nancy Mace moves to censure Cory Mills as House outrage over DC swamp explodes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3891967\/house-judiciary-refers-former-jack-smith-attorney-thomas-windom-prosecution\/\">House Judiciary Committee refers former Jack Smith attorney Thomas Windom for prosecution<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3891926\/watch-live-hakeem-jeffries-press-conference-2\/\">WATCH LIVE: Jeffries holds press conference<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I expressed my position on the floor yesterday. My statement speaks for itself,&rdquo; Jeffries said during a press conference on Wednesday. &ldquo;In a bipartisan way, a bipartisan way, the resolution that was introduced targeting Stacey Plaskett was defeated. And it was defeated for several reasons, including the fact that it was a dramatic overreach related to throwing her off her committees.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3243636&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=e1eca9df7aef2f71606b1d2633bfef36\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein texted Plaskett during a 2019 Oversight Committee hearing with former Trump lawyer <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michael-cohen\/\">Michael Cohen<\/a>. These texts were revealed as part of a trove of new information released by Epstein&rsquo;s estate to the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Plaskett has defended her correspondence with Epstein as her communicating with a &ldquo;constituent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Jeffrey Epstein&rsquo;s actions were absolutely reprehensible as a constituent,&rdquo; Plasket said of his convicted crimes, the first of which came in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3891123\/ralph-norman-house-censure-resolution-virgin-islands-stacey-plaskett-epstein-texts\/\"><strong>HOUSE VOTES DOWN CENSURE RESOLUTION AGAINST STACEY PLASKETT OVER EPSTEIN TEXTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Epstein for the second time on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >sex trafficking charges<\/a> in July 2019. Epstein later committed suicide in his prison cell that same year. Several months after the hearing, Plaskett <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3888315\/house-democrat-allegedly-texted-epstein-cohen-hearing-2019\/\">donated Epstein&rsquo;s contributions<\/a> to her campaign to charity.<\/p>\n<p>The House also denied an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-justice-dept-asks-supreme-court-to-save-obamacare\/\" title=\"Biden Justice Dept. Asks Supreme Court to Save Obamacare\">initial vote<\/a> to refer Plaskett to the Ethics Committee with 214 yeas and 213 nays, and six not voting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/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>Jeffries defends Plaskett, calls censure a &#8216;dramatic overreach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2512485,"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\/11\/jeffres-plaskett-e1763588853646.jpg?1763570863&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[61780,50470,24910,53888],"class_list":["post-2512484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-censure-vote","tag-jeffries-2","tag-plaskett","tag-political-defense"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jeffres-plaskett-e1763588853646.jpg?1763570863&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512484","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\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512488,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512484\/revisions\/2512488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}