Jasmine Crockett on Nicole Collier Being Locked Inside State Capitol: ‘We’re Living in a Country of Lawlessness’

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CROCKETT: "Yeah, again, we’re living in a country of lawlessness. This is unconstitutional. This is someone who has not been accused of a crime whatsoever. In fact, just the opposite. I mean, there are definitely people that needed to be locked up in the state of Texas, starting with our attorney general, who had been under federal investigation for a number of years, who had been under felony indictment for a number of years, who was impeached by his own party. Yet, he never saw any lock-up come to him. And obviously, you know how I feel about the president and where he should be right now, but instead it is a lawmaker who had the audacity to speak up for her constituency and, frankly, speak up for the Constitution and the rule of law overall. And they decided that because they were not being good little Democrats and doing as they were told, that once those warrants expired, most people didn’t understand that the warrants that they issued, the civil warrants are only good during the session in which they are issued. Well, once that session ended, which it ended, that meant that there was now not a warrant. So now what they said is, 'You must voluntarily sign a permission slip for people to track you so that you come to work and don’t leave again in order to ring ring the alarm on what’s happening.' So my former colleague, Nicole Collier, said, 'I’m not doing it. I’m not signing it.' And they said, 'Well, then we will break the law and we will unlawfully detain you here at the Capitol.'"