Rep. Nancy Mace outwitted a Harvard Legislation teacher and transgender rights activist on Tuesday by utilizing her personal tweets in opposition to her throughout a Home listening to on extremist rhetoric.
Throughout an alternate on the Home Committee on Oversight and Reform listening to exploring the “risk to American democracy posed by white supremacist ideologies,” Mace (R-SC) requested the six witnesses whether or not they thought harsh political rhetoric posed a “risk to democracy.”
Alejandra Caraballo, a transgender rights activist and Harvard Legislation medical teacher, answered “sure” earlier than Mace uncovered the progressive advocate’s obvious hypocrisy based mostly on her prior social media exercise.
Mace had two tweets from Caraballo on the prepared, printed out on posterboards, considered one of which known as for Supreme Court docket justices who dominated in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade to be accosted.
The June 25 tweet by Caraballo learn: “The 6 justices who overturned Roe ought to by no means know peace once more. It's our civic obligation to accost them each time they're in public. They're pariahs. Since girls don’t have their rights, these justices ought to by no means have a peaceable second in public once more.”
The South Carolina Republican proceeded to recount her personal experiences with being accosted, and the way threats have led her to hold a firearm for her safety.
“I do know one thing about being accosted,” Mace mentioned, including that she was “bodily accosted” on Jan. 5 by a constituent in Washington, DC, and has had trespassers at her residence as lately as August.
“I carry a gun in all places I am going, when I'm in my district and I’m at residence, as a result of I do know personally rhetoric has penalties,” Mace mentioned.
The South Carolina Republican then displayed a November tweet by Caraballo that learn, “It’s so clear that Justice [Samuel] Alito is corrupt and SCOTUS as an establishment is compromised. This isn't a reputable courtroom issuing choices. It’s an organ of the far proper that solely follows final result determinative logic fairly than any reasoned jurisprudence.”
Mace requested the activist if she stood by her feedback and “this sort of rhetoric on social media” and if she believed “it's a risk to democracy.”
Caraballo argued that her tweets weren't being characterised accurately.
Mace concluded her questioning of Caraballo by recounting the arrest of a person who allegedly sought to kill Supreme Court docket Justice Brett Kavanaugh within the aftermath of the courtroom’s rollback of abortion rights and emphasised that threats to democracy can come from the political left in addition to the political proper.
“It’s clear to me that now we have to name out the threats to our democracy emanating from the place they arrive, whether or not it’s the correct or the left,” Mace argued.
After the listening to, Mace had a warning for others who won't observe what they preach.
“In case you’re gonna be a hypocrite who advocates for violence on-line, you in all probability shouldn’t do it testifying in my committee…,” she tweeted.
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