At the Jack Smith hearing, Jamie Raskin asks whether rioters chanting "hang Mike Pence" have a First Amendment defense for assaulting police. His answer: it does not. Raskin adds that Bill Barr, Donald Trump's own attorney general, said free speech doesn't cover a conspiracy to overturn an election, then quotes Chairman Jordan calling January 6 "terrible" and "tragic."
The receipt
- Who
- Jamie Raskin
- Where
- hearing - House Judiciary Committee hearing with Special Counsel Jack Smith
- Original footage
- Blue Liberty · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 56 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
I mean, the people who attacked the police officers on January 6th were chanting, hang Mike Pence, I suppose that was political speech, or they were saying stop the steal. Does that mean they've got a First Amendment defense to violent assault against the officers? It does not. William Barr, by the way, was somebody who was perfectly clear about that. That's what the attorney, Donald Trump's own attorney general said, there's no freedom of speech that you have to engage in a conspiracy to overthrow an election, to commit crime. He was perfectly clear about that. Back in those days, in fact, lots of people on that side of the aisle, including my good friend, the chairman denounced the violence that took place on January 6. The cats got their tongue these days. My friend, Chairman Jordan, said, what happened last week was terrible, was tragic. It's as wrong as wrong can be, he said.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.