Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “But Palestinians are not just numbers. Behind these numbers are real people — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters — who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart. And we should not be trying to hide it. These are innocent children and babies who have been bombed in their tents, burned alive, dismembered and deliberately starved to death. Where is our shared humanity in this chamber? There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all, not when they’re alive and now not even when they’re dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial.”
Government banning speech, I understand it’s what the government says, but I feel someone is going to test the limit on this, and the first amendment is going to suffer for it.
This has nothing to do with the first amendment. It’s fucking bullshit, yeah, but not 1a related.
This is about parliamentary procedure, they can (and do, and always have) make whatever rules of decorum that they want.