Ranking Member Raskin’s Opening Statement at Hearing on the First Amendment and Censorship

Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD-8), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered opening remarks at the full committee hearing on the First Amendment and censorship. He appealed to Chairman Jim Jordan's (R-OH-4) passion for the First Amendment, and implored him to ensure that freedom of speech continues to apply to all speech. "When we together introduced our Free Flow of Information Act, you said “[a]ll rights protected in the First Amendment need to be defended.” We had real success. Let’s work together again to end the attacks on news organizations, to demand transparency from the Administration and to allow every American to exercise his or her free speech without being intimidated, harassed, or prosecuted."