Posted on 06/27/2022 5:27:51 PM PDT by John Semmens
Timothy Hysom, the chief of staff to Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Jake Auchincloss was caught on police surveillance video defacing posters outside the office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga). The U.S. attorney's office in Washington declined a Capitol Police request to issue an arrest warrant and charge Hysom for the crime, calling it "a gray area. Maybe if the perp had been an ordinary person it would be different, but an aide to a member of Congress shares a bit of the sovereign immunity granted to members of the government." Greene is has decided to seek a retraining order against Hysom.
Matt Corridoni, a spokesman for Auchincloss, says a restraining order "would be unnecessary and ineffective. First, a restraining order would only prevent Hysom from coming into contact with Greene. As long as he confines himself to defacing her posters he is free to continue. Second, Hysom is only exercising his free speech right to counter her offensive campaign message. Arresting him for expressing his opinions regarding Rep. Greene would violate his First Amendment rights."
The "offensive" message on Greene's posters is her assertion that "their are only two genders—male and female."
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