Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to testify at House weaponization hearing next week
Rachel Schilke
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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will appear before a House subcommittee next week to share his experience with federal censorship.
The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government will meet next Thursday to discuss the federal government’s role in censoring the public and Big Tech‘s “collusion with out-of-control government agencies to silence speech.”
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RFK Jr. will bring a personal testimony to the hearing — the White House attempted to censor him over COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in January 2021.
The censorship attempts were cited in the preliminary injunction that blocks the Biden administration from contacting social media companies in Missouri v. Biden. The Justice Department is currently reviewing the decision.
The Democratic presidential candidate had tweeted several links and images critical of the Biden and Trump administration’s approach to COVID-19 vaccines in the past.
“The judge got it exactly right when he wrote, ‘Freedom of speech and press is the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom,’” Kennedy said in a statement when the injunction was released. “Without freedom of speech, there is no democracy.”
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The case will be discussed at the subcommittee hearing on July 20. Other witnesses include Emma-Jo Morris, a journalist at Breitbart News, and D. John Sauer, special assistant attorney general with the Louisiana Department of Justice.
RFK Jr. reached double-digits in several polls, according to RealClearPolitics, whose average puts President Joe Biden at 64% and RFK Jr. at 14.4%. Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson has only reached double digits in one Fox News poll, but her RealClearPolitics average sits at 5.7%.