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Rep. Roy on January 6 prosecutions: The American people need to know that ‘justice is being served blindly’

July 20, 2021

WASHINGTON—On Monday, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) appeared on Glenn Beck's national radio program to discuss the urgency for answers on reports of prolonged politicized mistreatment of January 6 defendants by President Biden's Department of Justice.

Footage of the interview can be found here and some key quotes are below:

  • We have 500 people arrested and we don't have any real information on who they are, why they've been arrested, how they're being detained, what the actual- what's backing all of this?
  • I have constituents who were present in DC and have had a couple of people that have come to me and talked me about how they're being charged with crimes — one father son combination — both were charged with crime. The father was not detained, the son was and we're trying to get more information from them- from their lawyers, and now we're pressing the Department of Justice as we have been now for a couple of months.
  • For those that should be being prosecuted, fine, but we want to know the truth and we want to know the ones who are being held and what they're being charged with.
  • We [Reps. Roy and Thomas Massie (KY-04)] have sent letters, now we really need to start figuring out how to turn up the heat [on the Biden administration] to elevate this to find out all the facts.
  • We want to be able to see and compare this to what occurred in Portland last summer, when federal buildings, the courthouse is being ransacked and what were your priorities, what are the priorities of this administration, in terms of prosecuting those crimes? And we need to go through and see this and compare it and show so the American people know, justice is being served blindly as it's supposed to be.

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