US Congress to punish lawmaker over violent clip

The US house of representatives is poised to punish a republican lawmaker who tweeted a cartoon depicting him attacking democrats with swords.

Arizona congressman Paul Gosar faces a formal censure on Wednesday in the democratic-controlled congress.

It came after he posted then deleted an anime video that democrats say promoted violence against President Joe Biden and lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Mr Gosar has said the video was just a “symbolic cartoon”.

It comes just 10 months after supporters of republican President Donald Trump stormed congress in an attempt to block the certification of Mr Biden’s election victory.

Earlier this year democrats stripped another republican lawmaker, Marjorie Taylor Greene, of committee assignments for past remarks that included support for violence against democrats.

Conservatives accused them of hypocrisy for taking no punitive action against a democratic lawmaker, Ilhan Omar, who made remarks that were construed as Anti-Semitic.