Democrats decry House censure vote as ‘attempt to silence’ Jamaal Bowman

Jamaal Bowman told fellow members of Congress: ‘Republicans are here trying to rehash an already litigated matter.’ Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

Democrats accused Republicans of wasting time and pursuing “another attempt to silence a person of colour”, after the New York progressive Jamaal Bowman was formally censured for pulling a fire alarm in a congressional office building.

“This censure of Representative Bowman is yet another attempt to silence a person of colour in this chamber,” the Michigan representative Rashida Tlaib said.