The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing Tuesday on free speech and protests, but one witness in particular posed a problem for Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii.
Witness Kyle Shideler is a senior analyst for the Center for Security Policy, a think tank that has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. “I would like to register my concern that they are represented here,” Hirono said.
Shideler was not the only witness with a controversial background.
Andrew Ngo, a Portland-Ore.-based editor-at-large of the conservative Canadian news site The Post Millennial, was introduced as an independent journalist by subcommittee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Ngo has written controversial articles about Islam, including a Wall Street Journal op-ed that had to be corrected for falsely suggesting that “alcohol-free zones” in England were connected to the immigrant Muslim population.
Watch video of the hearing above. Video of the full multi-paneled hearing is also available on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s website.
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