
House Judiciary witness compares U.S. Capitol rioters unfavorably with Civil War secessionists
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Malcolm Nance, a Democratic witness before the House Judiciary Committee, said the attack by pro-Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol last month was in a certain respect more deplorable than when the South seceded from the Union.
"One of the reasons why we have a lot of heartburn with what happened with the insurrection on the Capitol, and why it is not equivalent to the protests in Portland...was the fact that they came to overthrow the government and to install a president as a monarch, as a dictator," Nance continued. "That is the difference here, it has never happened in American history, even the South attempted to use tenants of the Constitution for secession." Wednesday’s hearing was intended to address the rise in domestic terrorism in the U.S. and how to best handle it from a law enforcement and congressional perspective.More Related News