During a time of perceived crisis, who are the best stewards of the truth? If the truth is uncertain, do those stewards have the right to silence those who might contradict them? More fundamentally, do they ever have that right?
Those were the legal and philosophical questions at hand at the most recent meeting of the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
Testifying before the subcommittee were Robert Flaherty, the former director of digital strategy at the Biden White House; Andy Slavitt, former senior adviser for the Biden White House’s COVID-19 Response Team; Stanford Law School’s Matthew Seligman; and Todd Zywicki of George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.
Flaherty and Slavitt, like many of the Democratic members of the subcommittee, portrayed the opening days of President Joe Biden’s presidency…
