Jamie Raskin drops the hammer on Republicans after Oversight hearing turns up 'absolutely nothing'

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In a fiery statement concluding today's Twitter testimony at the House Oversight Committee, ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) tore apart the entire premise of the hearing and chided Republican members for failing to focus on more serious problems in social media.

The hearing, which included three former Twitter executives, focused on the decision by the company to briefly suppress a New York Post story detailing information about Hunter Biden's laptop ahead of the election as disinformation — a decision the company has freely admitted was a mistake, as many of the details of the story subsequently proved to be true.

Republicans have claimed, without any evidence, that the FBI or the Biden campaign pressured Twitter into suppressing the story.

"I want to start with a simple point," said Raskin. "We have members threatening witnesses with arrest and prosecution for clearly imaginary offenses, or at least offenses that might make sense in their mind - but I don't know what they would be."

"Twitter is a private, First Amendment protected media entity, and you make your own decisions, like Fox News — and I might get kicked off of Fox News or they might not cover me — or the Wall Street Journal or MSNBC. I've got no constitutional right to go there, so I think there is legal fallacy and logical fallacy that pervades most of the questioning today."

At: https://www.rawstory.com/jamie-raskin-2659390571/

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[crickets]

1. Good to see Jamie so fired up and eloquent. K&R

[MagickMuffin]

2. But but butt, they read the US Constitution on the house floor

They don’t need a schooling from a Constitutional Lawyer. Who does this Jamie Raskin think he is, lecturing the naybobs about the first amendment like that. Schooling them about the more important things they could be doing. Instead there Rep. Raskin is trying to teach them about the first amendment, even though their love is only for the second amendment.

The second amendment has more rights then people!

[WarGamer]

3. All political theater... were you expecting a Perry Mason moment?

They got their sound bites and they'll keep the Hunter hearings going thru Summer of 24.

[rubbersole]

4. No doubt.

And the basement of a pizza parlor in Bengazi selling children to Soros backed laser rioters from Portland coming to take your guns and force you into a unisex bathroom paid for by Bernie Sanders.