Jonathan Turley roasted Rep. Summer Lee after she attempted to censor Riley Gaines during a hearing on Tuesday. As RedState reported, Lee called Gaines “transphobic” for holding the view that men should not be able to compete with women in sports.
In our ever-disintegrating society, that has become a controversial statement. Even ten years ago, the vast majority of Americans would have rightly mocked the idea of a man dominating a woman in sports, taking her awards and scholarships. In the present day, everything must revolve around the affirmation of transgender ideology, though.
Gaines responded to Lee during the hearing by noting that dismissing the concerns of real women is misogynistic and discriminatory. The congresswoman then moved to have the swimmer’s words stricken from the record as a form of censorship.
As Turley notes in his critique, that’s a dangerous bit of authoritarianism that has become all to common among Democrats.
Members often knowingly make defamatory comments in congressional debates, but then decline to repeat those same words in public to avoid any legal accountability. I faced that tactic in representing Dr. Eric Foretich in the Elizabeth…
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