A prominent North Carolina newspaper is calling on the state’s Republican Party to take a hard line with former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

“When will the N.C. Republican Party censure Mark Meadows?" the News & Observer’s editorial board asked. “The answer, of course, is never. But that won’t hide the embarrassment that Meadows is for his party or for the state he represented in Congress for seven years.

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The editorial continued, “For North Carolina, Meadows is more than a figure in a Washington drama. He is the embodiment of how the state’s turn to extreme gerrymandering has opened the way for reactionary and incompetent candidates to represent the state in Congress.”

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The piece comes a day after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to hold Meadows, a former House Republican lawmaker, in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before a Democratic-led panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

Meadows is the second Trump aide to face charges from the Department of Justice for failing to testify. A federal grand jury last month indicted Trump adviser Steve Bannon after the House voted to find him in contempt of Congress for refusing to talk to the committee.