Republican interest in the treatment of people charged in connection to the Capitol riot detained in Washington, D.C., jails is not just limited to firebrand Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, as House Republicans made it a top priority during a congressional hearing Friday.
Julie Kelly, a senior writer at American Greatness and self-described “Jan. 6 truth seeker,” was a witness selected by Republicans on Friday at a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security hearing that aimed to examine the First Step Act, prison responses to the coronavirus pandemic, and “compassionate release.”
Kelly has written and reported extensively about poor D.C. jail conditions for those arrested in connection with the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. She wrote a book about what she says is a politically motivated “war on terror against the political right.”
“When you meet the federal guidelines for pretrial release, it is not compassionate, it is not due process, it is not fair or equitable to be confined in a prison in a jail with the conditions that ... many of these Jan. 6 defendants await their the outcomes of their cases,” subcommittee ranking member Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona said in the hearing. He has requested that Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler hold a hearing about the treatment of Jan. 6 defendants in the D.C. jail.
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