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Republican Senators Demand Biden Use National Guard to Suppress Columbia Protests
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Suppressing protests at Columbia... famously a good idea.
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What’s it been, fifty years since the national guard has gotten to shoot protesting college students?
But I assume they're totally fine with the Zionist counter-protesters surrounding them
Republicans want to use good ol fashioned iron fisting against people expressing their God-given first amendment rights.
YeeHaw!
The party of free speech
Neither of them have anything to do with New York - whatever happened to states' rights? The Constitution and the right to protest?
Quick! Someone needs to shoot up a bunch of Kindergarteners so I can pretend to care about the Constitution again!
-Republicans who have a Constitution Decal on their Truck.
Those two (Tom "Long Neck" Cotton and Josh "Run Forest Run" Hawley) look so much alike I keep getting them mixed up.
Wouldn't that fall under the jurisdiction of the Governor?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
are demanding President Joe Biden unleash the full force of the state’s National Guard to suppress pro-Palestinian student protests at Columbia University.
“If [New York City Mayor] Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and [New York Governor] Kathy Hochul won’t send the National Guard, Joe Biden has a duty to take charge and break up these mobs,” Cotton wrote Monday on X, formerly Twitter, describing the protests as “nascent pogroms” against Jews — invoking the term used to describe historic massacres against Jewish communities.
Hawley was infamously photographed saluting protesters outside of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, hours before the riot that nearly usurped the Electoral College certification of Biden’s election.
Earlier this month, Cotton signed onto an amicus curiae supporting a Supreme Court challenge to the Justice Department’s ability to charge Jan. 6 defendants with obstruction.
The outsized death toll, which is largely comprised of civilians and noncombatants, is the result of indiscriminate bombing of the besieged territory, and severe restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid to the region.
On Monday Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, penned an open letter accusing the university of violating Title IX by failing to suppress the protests.
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Because they WANT him to lose the election...