U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson declined to weigh in Wednesday on a restraining order barring Congressman Cory Mills from coming within 500 feet of his ex-girlfriend, calling the Central Florida Republican a “faithful colleague” and suggesting an ethics panel may take up the matter.

The GOP leader sidestepped questions about Mills’ personal scandals a day after a North Florida judge granted a protective order to his ex-girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States beauty queen and a state GOP committeewoman.

“He has been a faithful colleague here,” Johnson said at a Wednesday press conference. “I know his work on the Hill. “I don’t know all the details of all the individual allegations and what he’s doing in his outside life. You’d have to ask him about it.”

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