Democratic Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick Resigns Ahead of Ethics Committee Sanctions Hearing

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) resigned from Congress on Tuesday, stepping down hours before the House Ethics Committee was set to recommend a punishment for the 25 violations of campaign finance law and House rules it found her guilty of last month. The third-term Florida Democrat announced her resignation in a written statement, calling the ethics process a “witch hunt” and saying the committee had denied her new attorney’s request for time to prepare a defense while a federal criminal case against her remains pending. “I will not stand by and pretend that this has been anything other than a witch hunt,” Cherfilus-McCormick said. “I simply cannot stand by and allow my due process rights to be trampled on, and my good name to be tarnished.”...