Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson suggested Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley be put on the no-fly list for objecting to the Electoral College certification of the presidential election.
“There’s no exemption for being put on the no-fly list,” Thompson said during a SiriusXM interview on Monday. “Even a member of Congress that commits a crime, you know, they expel from the body.”
“There are ethics charges that can be brought against those individuals,” he added. “And people are looking at all this. What Hawley did and what Cruz did was horrible.”
The Mississippi Democrat, who leads the Committee on Homeland Security, also urged the Trump administration last week to ban the rioters who took part in the siege of the Capitol from taking commercial flights.
“Given the heinous domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol yesterday, I am urging the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use their authorities to add the names of all identified individuals involved in the attack to the federal No-Fly List and keep them off planes,” Thompson said in a statement issued Thursday evening.
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, the largest flight attendants union in the nation, also called for the ban after Wednesday’s events.
“The mob mentality behavior that took place on several flights to the D.C. area yesterday was unacceptable and threatened the safety and security of every single person onboard,” said union President Sara Nelson.
Cruz and Hawley are now also facing a petition signed by thousands of law school alumni and students demanding the two be disbarred for their “efforts to undermine the peaceful transition of power after a free and fair election.”
Hawley’s and Cruz’s offices did not immediately return requests for comment.
