We’ve seen a few elected representatives weigh in on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, but it’s something for a sitting congressman to declare that Rittenhouse should be locked up and the key thrown away. Aren’t politicians supposed to pretend to defend due process?
Lock up Kyle Rittenhouse and throw away the key.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeemjeffries) November 10, 2021
It’s so easy to spot the folks that haven’t watched any of the trial.
— Doug Lawrence (@DougRLawrence) November 10, 2021
Scary that you would say that. Obviously, you have not watched the trial.
— Cheryl Castle (@Cheryl_Castle) November 10, 2021
The thing is… even if he watched it, he'd probably say the same thing despite the overwhelming evidence
— Baboo Tabouli (@BabooTabouli) November 10, 2021
Elected officials should believe in the rule of law, not mob justice.
— Rob (proper noun, not verb) (@Mr_Bickers) November 10, 2021
They can’t. You demanded keys to jails to be thrown away
— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) November 11, 2021
Wait… aren't you a justice reform candidate?
— Garrett Baldwin (@GarrettBaldwin) November 10, 2021
It was only a year ago that Jeffries wanted to defund the prison industrial complex and end mass incarceration:
End. Mass. Incarceration.
Defund The Prison Industrial Complex.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeemjeffries) June 29, 2020
Sitting member of congress and chair of House Democratic Caucus https://t.co/q8R0J3ATVL
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 10, 2021
It's not like he tried to enter a restaurant without his vaccine card.
Chill out.— Sam Crowley (@SamCrowley) November 11, 2021
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It was also last summer when Rep. Ayanna Pressley tweeted that Rittenhouse was a “white supremacist domestic terrorist.” And President Biden featured Rittenhouse in a video calling him a white supremacist.
What happened to the whole thing about criminal justice reform, prison abolition, the evils of the carceral state, the inherent pro-prosecution bias, rehabilitative justice?
It all instantly disappears based if the accused has the wrong ideology. Then it's: law and order! https://t.co/NURNQRanho
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 10, 2021
I also don't believe the people saying this have watched much or any of the trial. They're instead demanding a now-18-year-old be imprisoned for life because they know their political followers want to hear that or they're looking for positive social media attention: both gross.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 10, 2021
With both Rittenhouse and the 1/6 defendants, it's absolutely bizarre (and more than a little grotesque) to watch liberals jettison every criminal justice reform principle they claim to believe because of the ideology of the accused, and suddenly turn into pro-prison fanatics.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 10, 2021
This actually all started with Russiagate. They wanted people like Michael Flynn imprisoned for years for a "crime" — lying to the FBI — that liberals like Ruth Bader Ginsburg long argued shouldn't even be a crime. The only crime they want punished is rejection of liberalism.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 10, 2021
(This same sick dynamic is why they're content to watch Assange locked away in a dungeon. The only crime they care about that they think he committed was publishing authentic docs that reflected poorly on Hillary Clinton and the DNC. They want their political enemies in jail).
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 10, 2021
FOUR YEARS requested for the Q Shaman on a charge that basically is non-violent trespassing.
That's the point: nobody who is remotely an advocate of criminal justice reform could support this, but he has the Bad Ideology, so to the dungeon he goes:https://t.co/At1UJoIKvM
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 11, 2021
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 31, 2020