Meet Nikema Williams, The Democrat Seeking Trump Capitol Ban

A freshman Georgia Democrat tabled a resolution seeking to ban President Trump from the grounds of the Capitol building in Washington D.C., one day after a member from across the aisle threatened to impeach Joe Biden after his inauguration.

Nikema Williams handily beat back a challenge from Republican Angela Stanton King to represent Georgia’s 5^th congressional district, a seat left vacant by the death of civil rights icon John Lewis in July.

Williams on Thursday drafted a resolution directing the sergeant at arms in the House and in the Senate “to prohibit President Donald John Trump from entering the United States Capitol at any time after the expiration of his term as President.”

Ten members of the Republican Party crossed the aisle on Wednesday to impeach Trump on charges of inciting insurrection last week when his supporters stormed the Capitol building, leaving five people dead, including a police officer. Williams was among those in the House voting to impeach the president.

Earlier this week, she joined 33 other lawmakers in signing a letter to sergeants at arms and the acting police chief in Washington D.C., Yogananda Pittman, calling for an investigation into allegations a handful of would-be rioters were escorted through the Capitol one day before last week’s unrest.

“Members of the group that attacked the Capitol seemed to have an unusually detailed knowledge of the layout of the Capitol Complex,” the letter reads. “The presence of these groups within the Capitol Complex was indeed suspicious.”

A former state senator, the head of Georgia Democratic Party and a long-time advocate for the LGBTQ community, Williams herself was arrested in 2018 for disrupting the state general assembly during protests over vote counting during the state’s gubernatorial race.

“I was not yelling. I was not chanting. I stood peacefully next to my constituents because they wanted their voices to be heard, and now I’m being arrested,” Williams said at the time.

She was booked on obstruction charges and later released on a $6,000 bond.

Last year, Georgia saw mounting opposition from the so-called Stop the Steal movement after President-elect Biden won the state’s 16 votes in the Electoral College in a narrow win over Trump in the Nov. 3 contest, the first time a Democrat won the state’s presidential contest for the first time since 1992.

Her call to ban Trump from the Capitol grounds came one day after freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican and follower of the QAnon conspiracy group, said she would file a resolution to impeach Biden after he takes the oath of office on Wednesday.

Appearing on conservative news broadcaster Newsmax, Greene said she was concerned about allegations that Biden may have been unduly influenced by foreign powers, namely China and Ukraine.

Republicans last year sought to determine whether Hunter Biden, the president-elect’s second son, held a role on the board of directors at Ukrainian energy company Burisma that presented a conflict of interest with U.S. anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine while Biden served as vice president. Trump last year said Beijing should investigate the former vice president for allegedly taking government payoffs. Both allegations were largely dismissed.

Greene is an adherent to the far-right QAnon conspiracy, which brands Trump as a savior of sorts for allegedly waging a secret war against a global liberal cult of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. She was also among the handful of Republicans who voted last week against certifying the Electoral College votes that confirmed Biden as the 46^th president.