{"id":38728,"date":"2026-04-22T23:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/38728\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:46:13","slug":"house-on-fire-rep-cory-mills-defiant-despite-ethics-probe-after-speaker-mike-johnson-tells-him-not-to-resign-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/38728\/","title":{"rendered":"House on Fire: Rep. Cory Mills defiant despite ethics probe after Speaker Mike Johnson tells him not to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Cory Mills of Florida says he will not resign from Congress despite facing an ongoing House Ethics Committee investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Independent spoke to Mills, who insisted he had no reason to leave, even after Florida Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick announced her resignation on Tuesday <\/a>amid troubling ethics findings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to know, can you tell me what criminal or civil charge I’ve ever been charged with?\u201d Mills countered. The Independent pointed out how Reps. Eric Swalwell<\/a> (D-Calif.) and Tony Gonzales both resigned their seats after the House Ethics Committee opened investigations into them for sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were under investigation for what? Sexual misconduct with a staffer or Hill staff? Affairs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Independent noted that a state judge hit Mills with a restraining order that prevents him from contacting an ex-partner<\/a>. House Speaker Mike Johnson has previously disregarded the restraining order.<\/p>\n

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The House Ethics Committee is investigating Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) for allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations. Mills is denying any wrongdoing and said he will not step down. (Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a social media injunction,\u201d Mills said. \u201cAnd so is everyone on the floor who has a restraining order, even if it’s a temporary where we don’t get to actually repel against it. Should they all leave?\u201d<\/p>\n

Many members of Congress, including some Republicans, have pushed for Mills to be expelled from Congress, which would require two-thirds of the vote.<\/p>\n

But Mills said that three members of Congress were expelled for joining the Confederacy during the Civil War, two were convicted felons under federal indictment and the other was George Santos, who had undergone an Ethics Committee investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what is the actual precedence?\u201d Mills said. \u201cIf you’re gonna actually ask the question, you should actually know the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into whether Mills failed to disclose information on required statements to the House, violated campaign finance laws, improperly solicited or received gifts, received special favors because of his office, \u201cengaged in misconduct with respect to allegations of sexual misconduct and\/or dating violence\u201d or misused his congressional resources or status.<\/p>\n

But on Tuesday, Mills spoke to CNN and said that Johnson had told him not to resign.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me that this is why we have this process,\u201d Mills said of Johnson to CNN. Johnson for his part did not say to CNN that Mills should resign.<\/p>\n

\u201cCory Mills is going through the same due process that was afforded to Cherfilus-McCormick and anyone else who has allegations made against them,\u201d he said. \u201cHe is in the middle of an Ethics Committee process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cherfilus-McCormick announced her resignation on Tuesday ahead. The House Ethics Committee had previously found her guilty of 25 House ethics violations tied to allegations that she stole money meant for Covid relief and used some of the cash to fund her congressional campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Cory Mills of Florida says he will not resign from Congress despite facing an ongoing House Ethics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[1179,5829,1727,17071,16636,478,25089,15338,5159],"class_list":{"0":"post-38728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mike-johnson","8":"tag-cory-mills","9":"tag-eric-swalwell","10":"tag-ethics-committee","11":"tag-house-ethics-committee","12":"tag-members-of-congress","13":"tag-mike-johnson","14":"tag-restraining-order","15":"tag-sexual-misconduct","16":"tag-the-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116451028893580877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}