{"id":71462,"date":"2026-04-11T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/house-republican-plans-motion-to-oust-swalwell-from-congress-amid-sexual-assault-allegations\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:54:56","slug":"house-republican-plans-motion-to-oust-swalwell-from-congress-amid-sexual-assault-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/house-republican-plans-motion-to-oust-swalwell-from-congress-amid-sexual-assault-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican plans motion to oust Swalwell from Congress amid sexual assault allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., announced Saturday that she would be filing a motion to expel Rep. Eric Swalwell<\/a>, D-Calif., from Congress after former staffers accused the congressman of sexual assault and misconduct.<\/p>\n

“I am filing a motion to expel Eric Swalwell from Congress,” she wrote in a Saturday morning tweet.<\/p>\n

The move comes after at least four female former staffers<\/a> of Swalwell’s accused him of sexual impropriety. One staffer accused him of sexual assault on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n

A former staffer told the San Francisco Chronicle that when she was 17 and Swalwell was 38 he began messaging her on the social media platform Snapchat, a messaging platform in which messages between users disappear. The woman, who the Chronicle did not identify, said Swalwell began sending her inappropriate pictures and requesting pictures of her naked body.<\/p>\n

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She also claimed that in 2024 she woke up alone in Swalwell’s hotel room after a night she did not remember with “vaginal bleeding,” according to the Chronicle.<\/p>\n

Swalwell, who is married with children, has denied the sexual assault allegations as “false and outrageous<\/a>.” His lawyer also sent a cease and desist letter to the woman, the Chronicle reported.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to Swalwell’s and Luna’s offices but did not immediately receive a response.<\/p>\n

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Running in the open primary to become California’s next governor, Swalwell was ahead of all other registered Democrats, trailing only Republican Steve Hilton in the latest polling average<\/a> from Real Clear Politics. That may soon change though, as the allegations have prompted a wave of calls<\/a> from prominent Democrats for Swalwell to bow out.<\/p>\n

Those calls have come from party bosses like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and from those closest to Swalwell, such as Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., who retracted an earlier message of support in order to call for Swalwell to step down. Gallego, who Swalwell has referred to as a “dear friend,” initially faced backlash<\/a> for defending Swalwell.<\/p>\n

While other party members like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, D-Calif, pile on to the calls to drop out, very few have gone as far as calling for Swalwell to vacate his congressional seat, a fact Luna highlighted in a Saturday morning appearance on Saturday in America with Kayleigh McEnany.<\/p>\n

“It is unacceptable for him to just index his, campaign for governor in California but still sit in the House of Representatives<\/a>,” she told McEnany.<\/p>\n

Luna also lambasted the Dems on X, writing, “So the Dems don\u2019t want Swalwell to be governor of California, but he can stay a member of Congress? Are we running a halfway house for sexual predators in Congress now? No. He should not be allowed to stay in Congress.”<\/p>\n

Luna’s motion to expel Swalwell, should she get it to the House floor, would require a two-thirds majority vote from Congress in order to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., announced Saturday that she would be filing a motion to expel Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., from Congress after former staffers accused the congressman of sexual assault and misconduct. “I am filing a motion to expel Eric Swalwell from Congress,” she wrote in a Saturday morning tweet. The move comes after … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}