This video captures a dramatic Senate hearing exchange where Senator John Kennedy confronted law professor Professor Franks about her controversial past tweets and public statements, questioning whether her personal political beliefs affected her objectivity as an expert witness on free speech and government censorship. The exchange illustrates how political figures may challenge the credibility of academic experts during congressional proceedings, raising broader questions about the intersection of social media, political bias, and professional objectivity in public discourse.
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In November of 2024, you tweet, don't you?
I'm not sure what the current terminology is for it, but yes, I am sometimes on the social platform that was formerly known as Twitter. Yeah, you're on a lot, aren't you?
I'm not sure what the relevance of that is. You try to be provocative on there, don't you?
Again, I am not sure what the relevance >> Well, let me let me let me show you the relevance. On November A Senate hearing took a dramatic turn when John Kennedy confronted a law professor over a series of controversial past tweets and public statements.
What began as a discussion about free speech and government censorship quickly exploded into one of the most tense exchanges of the hearing.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I I apologize for having to miss the testimony of some of you, and I appreciate you coming today.
Um Professor Franks, let me ask you I I took I I listened to to your and Ms. Hemingway's testimony and Professor Turley's, I so I got part of it.
Um as I understand it, your position, Professor Franks, is that I think you used you used the word myth.
It is a myth that the Biden administration used government to compel speech, private speech, but that the Trump administration isn't doing that. Is that a fair characterization?
Yes, that's correct. Okay. Do you think perhaps you're allowing your personal political beliefs to to to affect your objectivity here? No, I do not. What is guiding my answers here is that I'm looking to see what the Supreme Court has said. You notice that in the testimony about the censorship of Professor Compton >> that part. I'm just I'm just going to >> No, but I've only got 5 minutes. Your answer is no, so I appreciate it.
Um I'm going to let me ask you a couple questions. Um You you wrote a law review article in December of 2023 for the New York
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