Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 1st district | |
In office January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2023 | |
Preceded by | Max Sandlin |
Succeeded by | Nathaniel Moran |
Personal details | |
Born | Louis Buller Gohmert Jr. August 18, 1953 Pittsburg, Texas, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse |
Kathy Gohmert (m. 1978) |
Children | 3 |
Education | Army Judge Advocate General's Corps |
Awards | Meritorious Service Medal |
Louis Buller Gohmert Jr. (/ˈɡoʊmərt/; born August 18, 1953)[1] is an American attorney, politician,[2] and former judge who was the U.S. representative from Texas's 1st congressional district from 2005 to 2023. Gohmert is a Republican and was part of the Tea Party movement. In January 2015, he unsuccessfully challenged John Boehner for Speaker of the House of Representatives.[3] In November 2021, he announced his candidacy in the 2022 Texas Attorney General election.[4] He failed to advance to the Republican primary runoff, finishing fourth with 17% of the vote.[5]
Early life and education
Gohmert was born in
Gohmert enrolled in Texas A&M University, receiving a U.S. Army scholarship and earning a B.A. in history in 1975.[9] He commanded a cadet brigade in the Corps of Cadets and served as class president.[10] He was also a student leader for the MSC Student Conference on National Affairs alongside future U.S. Representative Chet Edwards, and a member of the Ross Volunteer Company.[11]
Gohmert received a Juris Doctor degree from Baylor Law School in 1977.
Early political career
Gohmert attended
Most of his legal service in the U.S. Army was as a defense attorney.Gohmert was elected as a state district judge for Texas's 7th Judicial District, serving Smith County (Tyler, Texas) from 1992 to 2002. He was elected to three terms.[12] He first saw national recognition for a 1996 probation requirement where he ordered an HIV-positive man, who was convicted on motor vehicle theft charges, to seek the written consent from all future sexual partners on a court-provided form notifying them of his HIV status.[14] The order angered LGBT activists and civil libertarians.[14]
In 2002, Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed Gohmert to fill a vacancy as Chief Justice on Texas's 12th Court of Appeals, where he served a six-month term that ended in 2003.[15]
U.S. House of Representatives
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A mid-decade redistricting made the 1st District significantly more conservative than its predecessor. Tyler, which had long anchored the 4th District, was shifted to the 1st District. In the 2004 Republican primary, Gohmert defeated State Representative Wayne Christian of Center, Texas. He defeated Democratic incumbent 1st District Congressman Max Sandlin with 61% of the vote. He has never again faced another contest that close, and been reelected seven times, never with less than 68% of the vote. He only faced an independent in 2008, and a Libertarian in 2010.
On July 29, 2009, Gohmert signed on as a co-sponsor of the defeated
On January 3, 2013, Gohmert broke ranks with the House leadership to nominate Representative Allen West for Speaker of the House, although West narrowly lost his bid for reelection in 2012 and was no longer a member of Congress.[17]
Although Gohmert had previously ruled out the possibility of a bid for the U.S. Senate, in 2013 he was boosted by at least one "tea party" group (Grassroots America We the People) as a primary challenger to Senator John Cornyn.[18]
A vocal critic of Speaker John Boehner, Gohmert challenged his reelection to the speakership for the 114th Congress when Congress convened on January 6, 2015.[19] Boehner was reelected, even though 25 Freedom Caucus Republicans chose not to vote for him. Gohmert received three of those votes.[20][21]
In 2017, Gohmert expressed fear that he might become the target of gun violence similar to that experienced by former representative Gabby Giffords and refused to hold public town hall meetings.[22]
During his nine terms in office, Gohmert passed one bill that would become a law, a 2017 measure simplifying the
Reputation
Gohmert is considered to be a conservative Tea Party Republican.[24]
During his congressional career, Gohmert's actions and comments garnered much controversy, including when he compared
In May 2021, Gohmert made a rambling speech in which he admitted that many people think he is "the dumbest guy in Congress;" though, he added "I'm comfortable with who and what I am."[25] The speech resulted in mockery of Gohmert by some in the media.[26]
Fiscal policy
Gohmert signed the
He was one of a number of Republicans who voted against the Budget Control Act of 2011 on grounds it did not do enough to deal with the government's growing debt.[29]
Gohmert was one of four Republicans who joined 161 Democrats to vote against a balanced budget Constitutional amendment in November 2011.[30]
Gohmert supports and has voted for legislation in favor of school vouchers.[31]
Gohmert strongly supported the
Climate change and the environment
Gohmert rejects the scientific consensus on climate change and has asserted that data supporting it is fraudulent.[34] He opposes cap-and-trade legislation, such as the one that passed the U.S. House when it had a Democratic majority, and supports expanding drilling and exploration in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).[34]
In a July 8, 2015, interview on the C-SPAN program Washington Journal, after Pope Francis issued his second encyclical Laudato si', Gohmert said Francis was incorrect to identify climate change as a serious problem.[35][36] He supported the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.[37]
In a 2012 meeting of the
During a June 2021
Abortion
Gohmert opposes abortion. He has said that he believes that life begins at conception. Gohmert sponsored the Sanctity of Human Life Act and voted for the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, a bill that prohibits the transportation of a minor across state lines for the purposes of an abortion without their parents' consent. He has a 100% pro-life voting record rating from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).[48][49]
At a congressional hearing on May 23, 2013, on an abortion bill that would ban the procedure after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Gohmert told the story of a couple he knew who decided to go through with their pregnancy despite learning of fetal anomalies. He told Zink, a witness, that she should have gone through with her pregnancy despite a doctor's opinion that the brain function was impaired, and then have a better assessment of the baby's health once it was born. Gohmert said, "Ms. Zink, having my great sympathy and empathy both, I still come back wondering, shouldn't we wait, like that couple did, and see if the child can survive before we decide to rip him apart? ... So these are ethical issues, they're moral issues, they're difficult issues, and the parents should certainly be consulted. But it just seems like it's a more educated decision if the child is in front of you to make those decisions".[50]
LGBT rights
Gohmert opposes LGBT rights. In 2009, he voted against the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a bill that expanded federal hate crime law to cover crimes biased by the victim's sexual orientation or gender identity.[51] In 2010, Gohmert opposed allowing gays and lesbians to serve in the U.S. military and voted against the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act.[52] In 2015, Gohmert cosponsored a resolution to amend the US constitution to ban same-sex marriage.[53] Gohmert also cosponsored a resolution disagreeing with the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional.[54] In 2019, he expressed strong opposition to the Equality Act, a bill that would protect LGBT people against discrimination.[55]
School shootings
On December 16, 2012, two days after the
After the
Scientific research funding
On March 22, 2016, Gohmert was one of four representatives to vote against H.R. 4742 (383 voted for it), a bill to authorize the National Science Foundation to support entrepreneurial programs for women. He said the following in defense of his position: he acknowledged the bill was "well-intentioned" but said "this program is designed to discriminate against that young, poverty-stricken boy and to encourage the girl. Forget the boy. Encourage the girl."[59]
Hate crimes
On February 26, 2020, Gohmert voted against making lynching a federal hate crime.[60] He said the 10-year sentence for lynching in the act was "ridiculous" and that crimes such as lynching should be prosecuted through state murder statutes, which is punishable up to death in Texas.[61] Gohmert opposes federal hate crime legislation, saying that some hate crime legislation is unnecessary because assault and murder are already crimes.[61]
Foreign policy and national security
On May 15, 2013, Gohmert said in a House Judiciary Hearing that he believed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) did not act with due diligence concerning alleged bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. His contention was that the FBI was more interested in Christian groups such as those led by Billy and Franklin Graham than in groups that might be considered less politically correct to target. Attorney General Eric Holder responded to his claims: "The only observation I was going to make is that you state as a matter of fact what the FBI did and did not do. Unless somebody has done something inappropriate, you don't have access to the FBI files ... I know what the FBI did. You cannot know what I know. That's all". Gohmert objected to this on the grounds that Holder had "challenge[d]" his character and made several unsuccessful attempts to inject his viewpoint as a point of personal privilege.[62]
In April 2018, Gohmert testified at a hearing supporting
In September 2021, Gohmert was among 75 House Republicans to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022, which contains a provision that would require women to be drafted.[66][67]
Gohmert was among 19 House Republicans to vote against the final passage of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.[68]
In June 2021, Gohmert was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the AUMF against Iraq.[69][70]
"Terror babies"
In a speech about national security on the House floor in June 2010,[71] Gohmert claimed that a retired FBI agent had told him that one of the things the FBI had been looking at were terrorist cells overseas sending young women to become pregnant so they would deliver the baby in the United States, and then take the baby with them back to be raised as a terrorist. When adult, this operative—a U.S. citizen by birth—could be easily infiltrated in the U.S. to carry out terrorist actions.[72] On August 12, 2010, Gohmert appeared on Anderson Cooper 360° to defend comments he had recently made on the House floor about "terror babies".[73]
On Fox Business, Gohmert later claimed that an airline passenger with a relative in Hamas had a grandchild who was to be intentionally born in the United States.[74] In the interview, he said that pregnant women from the Middle East were traveling to the U.S. on tourist visas, planning to deliver children there.[75]
The
Muslim Brotherhood
On June 13, 2012, Gohmert was one of five Republican
A letter to Ambassador
The letter and the Center for Security Policy's accusation were widely denounced as a smear, and achieved "near-universal condemnation", including from several prominent Republicans such as John McCain, John Boehner, Scott Brown, and Marco Rubio.[83][84][85]
Newt Gingrich praised Gohmert and his colleagues as the "National Security Five" in a Politico editorial. Gingrich wrote that he favored investigating the Muslim Brotherhood, and made clear his support for Gohmert and the other four representatives for raising concerns that improve national security.[86] Conservative columnist Cal Thomas replied, to accusations of "McCarthyism", that the real possibility of infiltration by Islamic extremists deserves to be investigated.[87]
Immigration
In November 2007, Gohmert introduced private relief bill, H.R. 4070, which would have stalled the deportation of an Albanian restaurateur from Gohmert's district who had fled to the United States in January 2001 after his brother witnessed the murder of a leading member of the Democratic Party of Albania.[88][89]
Gohmert voted against the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 which would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the per-country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, to increase the per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants, and for other purposes.[90]
Gohmert voted against the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 which authorizes DHS to nearly double the available H-2B visas for the remainder of FY 2020.[91][92]
Gohmert voted against Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 1158) which effectively prohibits ICE from cooperating with Health and Human Services to detain or remove illegal alien sponsors of unaccompanied alien children (UACs).[93]
In early 2018, Gohmert announced that he had introduced a resolution (H. Res. 791) to change the name of Cesar Chavez Day to Border Control Day, saying, "Chavez spent his life addressing the harmful effects that illegal migration might have on this country and advocating for a legal immigration process."[94] The proposition was criticized by Arizona House Minority Leader Rebecca Rios and members of the Hispanic-American community, who felt it was disrespectful of Chavez's legacy.[95][96]
In December 2018, with the possibility of a
Comments on George Soros
In December 2018, Gohmert was a guest on
Within an hour, host Stuart Varney said on air, "In the last hour, one of our guests, Congressman Louie Gohmert, for some reason went out of his way to bring up George Soros, and made unsubstantiated and false allegations against him. I want to make clear those views are not shared by me, this program or anyone at Fox Business." Gohmert later responded that his words had not been anti-Jewish and were actually a "pro-Jewish statement on my part."[100]
Investigations into Donald Trump
Call for Robert Mueller to resign
Gohmert was one of three
Whistleblower outing
In an open impeachment hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Gohmert spoke the name of a man widely thought to be the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the first impeachment of Donald Trump.[104]
COVID-19
Although there is no evidence of its effectiveness, Gohmert strongly supports the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, as he told Sean Hannity of Fox News in July 2020.[105][106] He urged the Food and Drug Administration in April 2020 to approve the drug as an official treatment. In April 2020, Gohmert was criticized after falsely claiming that Germany had invented a "mist" that killed the coronavirus.[107][108][109]
Gohmert tested positive for COVID-19 on July 29, 2020, a day after he attended a House Judiciary Committee hearing without wearing a mask,[110] a practice he had largely maintained for some time.[106] In an interview, he suggested that he might have contracted the disease from wearing a mask.[111] An anonymous Gohmert aide emailed Politico with complaints, thanking Politico for letting the office know Gohmert tested positive; that "Louie requires full staff to be in the office, including three interns, so that 'we could be an example to America on how to open up safely'"; and that "people were often berated for wearing a mask".[112] Gohmert said he planned to take hydroxychloroquine as part of his treatment.[105] On September 19, he was reported to be "glad to be on the other side" and to have donated his blood plasma (presumably for use in convalescent plasma therapy).[113]
2020 election and Capitol attack
In December 2020, Gohmert was one of 126 Republican members of the
Gohmert v. Pence
On December 27, 2020, Gohmert filed a federal lawsuit against Vice President
On January 1, 2021, Gohmert's lawsuit was dismissed by federal judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, because the plaintiffs lacked standing. Kernodle ruled that Gohmert lacked standing due to precedent set by the Supreme Court in 1997: alleging an "institutional injury to the House of Representatives" does not grant Gohmert standing to sue. Additionally, Kernodle ruled that the injury Gohmert was alleging depended on so many hypothetical and not yet realized events that it was "far too uncertain to support standing". Gohmert failed to make a case for how he was injured "as an individual", Kernodle said.[121][122] As for the other plaintiffs, Kernodle ruled that they lacked standing because the injury they alleged was "not fairly traceable" to Pence.[123]
Gohmert appealed the district court's ruling that day.[121] He also reacted to the dismissal by declaring that with "no remedy" provided, "in effect the ruling would be that you gotta go to the streets and be as violent as antifa and BLM."[121]
On January 2, a three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit speedily and tersely rejected Gohmert's appeal; they "affirm the judgment" of the district court, "essentially for the reasons stated by the district court".[121] The judges who presided over the appeal were Andrew Oldham (appointed by Trump), Patrick Higginbotham and Jerry Edwin Smith (both appointed by Ronald Reagan).[121]
Gohmert then appealed to the Supreme Court; the Court rejected the petition on January 7.[124]
January 6 Capitol attack
According to a
Gohmert was one of the 147 members of Congress to vote against certifying the results of the
In July 2021, Gohmert suggested the Capitol attack was a conspiracy possibly set up by Democrats.[129] In September 2022, upon the release of convicted January 6 participant Simone Gold from federal prison, he gave Gold an American flag that had flown on the Capitol.[130]
In June 2022, Gohmert said, "if you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you", in response to the indictment of Trump adviser Peter Navarro for non-compliance with the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.[131] In contrast, Gohmert claimed, "If you're a Democrat, then you can lie. You can cheat", referencing the acquittal of lawyer Michael Sussmann.[131]
Support for impeaching Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas
Gohmert was one of 32 Republican congress members to cosponsor Andy Biggs' August 2021 resolution to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.[132] He was also one of six Republican congress members to cosponsor Lauren Boebert's September 2021 resolution to impeach President Biden.[133]
Committee assignments
- Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice
- Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations
Committee on Natural Resources (Ranking Member)
- Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Caucus memberships
- Freedom Caucus[134]
- Israel Allies Caucus
- United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus[135]
- Tea Party Caucus
- Republican Study Committee[136]
- Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus[137]
- Congressional Western Caucus[138]
Texas Attorney General candidacy
In November 2021, Gohmert announced his candidacy in the 2022 Texas Attorney General election instead of seeking re-election in Texas's 1st congressional district, to challenge incumbent Ken Paxton in a crowded Republican primary. He made the announcement to run after saying he would join the race if he could reach $1 million in political donations in 10 days. He stated he had reached the goal;[139] however, campaign finance report show Gohmert had not met the $1 million goal.[140] Gohmert ended last in the four-candidate primary.[141]
He was succeeded in his seat in the House by Nathaniel Moran.
Electoral history
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Louie Gohmert | 157,068 | 61.5% | ||
Democratic | Max Sandlin (incumbent) | 96,281 | 37.7% | ||
Libertarian | Dean L. Tucker | 2,158 | 0.8% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Louie Gohmert (incumbent) | 104,099 | 68.0% | ||
Democratic | Roger L. Owen | 46,303 | 30.2% | ||
Libertarian | Donald Perkison | 2,668 | 1.7% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Louie Gohmert (incumbent) | 189,012 | 87.6% | ||
Independent
|
Roger L. Owen | 26,814 | 12.4% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Louie Gohmert (incumbent) | 129,398 | 89.7% | ||
Libertarian | Charles F. Parkes III | 14,811 | 10.3% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Louie Gohmert (incumbent) | 178,322 | 71.4% | ||
Democratic | Shirley J. McKellar | 67,222 | 26.9% | ||
Libertarian | Clark Patterson | 4,114 | 1.6% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Louie Gohmert (incumbent) | 115,084 | 77.5% | ||
Democratic | Shirley J. McKellar | 33,476 | 22.5% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Louie Gohmert (incumbent) | 192,434 | 73.9% | ||
Democratic | Shirley J. McKellar | 62,847 | 24.1% | ||
Libertarian | Phil Gray | 5,062 | 1.9% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Louie Gohmert (incumbent) | 168,165 | 72.3% | ||
Democratic | Shirley J. McKellar | 61,263 | 26.3% | ||
Libertarian | Jeff Callaway | 3,292 | 1.4% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Louie Gohmert (incumbent) | 219,726 | 72.6% | ||
Democratic | Hank Gilbert | 83,016 | 27.4% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Ken Paxton (incumbent) | 823,199 | 42.7% | ||
Republican | George P. Bush | 439,240 | 22.8% | ||
Republican | Eva Guzman | 337,761 | 17.5% | ||
Republican | Louis B. Gohmert Jr. | 327,257 | 17.0% |
Personal life
A
See also
- Conspiracy theories related to the Trump–Ukraine scandal
- United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack public hearings
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External links
- Louie Gohmert at Curlie
- Profile, texastribune.org
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
- Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
- Profile at Vote Smart
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