{"id":1198059,"date":"2022-01-07T19:05:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198059"},"modified":"2022-01-07T19:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:05:45","slug":"hawley-fbi-biden-admin-using-1-6-as-an-excuse-to-go-after-law-abiding-citizens-shut-down-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawley-fbi-biden-admin-using-1-6-as-an-excuse-to-go-after-law-abiding-citizens-shut-down-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawley: FBI, Biden Admin Using 1\/6 as an &#039;Excuse&#039; to Go After Law-Abiding Citizens, Shut Down Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhawley-fbi-biden-admin-using-1-6-as-an-excuse-to-go-after-law-abiding-citizens-shut-down-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198059&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sen-josh-hawley-mo-dec3-2020-getty-images-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>During an appearance on FNC\u2019s \u201cFox News Primetime,\u201d Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) defended his decision to go through with a challenge of the Electoral College on January 6 despite the U.S. Capitol riot that took place earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley\u2019s opponents have insisted that challenge was part of the so-called \u201cinsurrection\u201d effort, to which the Missouri Republican lawmaker dismissed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, Hawley also said the federal government was using the circumstances of January 6, 2021 to go after law-abiding citizens and to shut down free speech.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[L]et me just say this, it is a constitutional right to engage in peaceful political demonstrations and the thousands, tens of thousands of people who came to Washington last January 6, and have now been harassed by the FBI, have had people knock on their doors and threaten them,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is crazy. And it is wrong. It is wrong to go after law-abiding citizens who are engaging in their constitutional rights. And I will continue to fight that at every turn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd listen, you know, on January 6, a year ago, I objected to the state of Pennsylvania because they didn\u2019t follow their own election laws,\u201d Hawley continued. \u201cTheir Supreme Court changed the rules of the voting during the election. That was wrong then. It is wrong today. I hope we never see that again in American history, but to attempt to use that as an excuse and to use last January 6 as an excuse to go after law-abiding citizens and shut down speech you don\u2019t like, that\u2019s just plain un-American. And that\u2019s what this administration is trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Lawrence, I can tell you, they\u2019re not going to get by with it,\u201d he added. \u201cThe American people aren\u2019t going to stand for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jeff_poor\">@jeff_poor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an appearance on FNC\u2019s \u201cFox News Primetime,\u201d Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) defended his decision to go through with a challenge of the Electoral College on January 6 despite the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}