The Republican party of Wyoming will no longer consider their sole U.S. House lawmaker, Rep. Liz Cheney, as a member of the GOP. Cheney, who is a consistent critic of former President Donald Trump, was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in January following the U.S. Capitol protest on Jan. 6th.

Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has repeatedly defended her vote to impeach Trump. Last week she called Trump a “dangerous and irrational man” who is at “war with the rule of law and the Constitution.” Cheney has also criticized Trump for claims that he won the 2020 presidential election before House Republicans removed her from her post as the third-highest ranking Republican, conference chair, in May.

In February, the Wyoming GOP also censured Cheney over her impeachment vote, which ran counter to the will of Wyoming voters, who supported Trump by a more than 40-point margin. The state party also said that members of the anti-fascist movement Antifa and Black Lives Matter instigated the violence on Jan. 6.  The congresswoman claimed she had put the Constitution above party in her impeachment of Trump, but the state central committee voted to pass a resolution that questions her decision making.

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