House condemns president’s remarks as racist

After a deeply partisan debate, lawmakers voted on Tuesday to condemn President Trump’s attacks on four Democratic congresswomen as “racist comments that have legitimized increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color.”

The symbolic measure was the first House rebuke of a president in more than a century and passed nearly along party lines. Four Republicans and the House’s lone independent, Representative Justin Amash of Michigan, voted with all the Democrats to condemn the president. (Read the text of the measure.)

Republicans criticized Speaker Nancy Pelosi as violating the House’s rules of decorum, which call for lawmakers to avoid impugning the motives of their colleagues or the president.

Closer look: In attacking the four liberal lawmakers known as the Squad, Mr. Trump appears to be betting that he can cast the entire Democratic Party as radical and un-American.