Political Quotes

“where is the redline? You know, a lot of us wake up every day trying to figure out, exactly how bad is it? Is this the moment that Republican Members of the U.S. Senate are going to stand up for not our rights but their rights and not just U.S. Senators but everyone who put us in office? Last night, there was a failed indictment of two U.S. Senators, and the indictment--we don't know what they were charged with, but it was about a 90-second video in which they reiterated the guidance from the Uniform Code of Military Justice. By the way, even if you don't like what they said; even if you thought it was unwise, what they said; even if you thought it was provocative, what they said, it was not illegal. They have a perfect right under the Constitution, the First Amendment, to express themselves. That is not illegal. That is not seditious. That is not worthy of a court-martial. That is literally them doing their jobs. You can criticize them in the manner in which they do their jobs, but you may not incarcerate them. In addition to the First Amendment, they have specific constitutional rights for Members of Congress under the speech and debate clause. In other words, if you are doing something as a U.S. Senator--and they very clearly were--you have additional protections. Why does that matter? Not because we are overly concerned with 100 of the most privileged people on the planet but because this place represents U.S.…”