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Salon
Salon
Politics
Nandika Chatterjee

MTG attacks Black colleague's appearance

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s antics in Congress may possibly have hit a new and racist low, the events that transpired at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday resembling a trainwreck that one can’t stop watching.

At 8 p.m, the members of the Republican-led committee congregated for what was supposed to be a debate on whether to hold Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in contempt of Congress. It was the Republicans who had recommended charging Garland, but they were also the reason the hearing gathered so late — instead of sticking around for their jobs, some of them had traveled to Manhattan earlier to show support for Donald Trump in his hush money trial.

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