The Republican National Committee has requested disciplinary action against Sen. Elizabeth Warren identifying as a Native American on a Texas Bar registration card.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDonald filed a grievance with the chief disciplinary counsel in Texas.
“Attorney Warren should be disciplined for lying and failing to correct a misrepresentation she made on her Texas Bar registration card,” the grievance reads. “On April 18, 1986, Attorney Warren registered for the Texas bar and made a misrepresentation that she was ‘American Indian’ on a section title ‘Race.’”
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday it had obtained a 1986 registration card on which the Massachusetts identified her race as “American Indian.”
Warren, who is in the running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, has faced criticism, especially from President Trump, for her previously known claims to Native American heritage decades ago when applying for law school professorships.
Warren has maintained her claims to aboriginal blood, and publicized a DNA test that revealed she is as little as 1/1024th American Indian, which is less than the average European American.
Last week, Warren issued a private apology to the Cherokee Nation for making the test results public, the first time on record that she apologized for the ordeal. The specifics of the apology were not made public.
“I can’t go back,” Warren told the Post. “But I am sorry for furthering confusion on tribal sovereignty and tribal citizenship and harm that resulted.”
