India, Nov. 19 -- On Tuesday, the GOP-led Freedom Caucus at the US House of Representatives filed a motion to censure Democratic House Rep Stacey Plaskett over her links to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The vote on the motion- rejected by the House with 213 in favor and 214 against- came after the House voted unanimously to force a release of the Epstein files.

Plaskett was attacked by the House GOP after the recently released emails of the convicted sex trafficker showed that he spoke to Epstein during a Congressional hearing in 2019, the Washington Post reported. After the report, a spokesperson from Plaskett acknowledged that she was indeed texting Epstein, but she was just responding to "partisan vitriol."

"During the hea...