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WASHINGTON ― Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Wednesday called out Republicans for staying largely quiet after Trump’s Justice Department sought to prosecute him and five other Democratic lawmakers who told U.S. service members not to follow illegal orders in a video last year.
“They tried to have us charged and thrown into jail because we said something they didn’t like,” Kelly said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. “Where are the free speech absolutist Republicans now who were so concerned about the weaponization of government? What happened to them? Where are they?”
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“This is the master alarm flashing for our democracy,” the senator warned.
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