A prominent voting rights lawyer slammed Vice President JD Vance on Sunday for his latest “lie” about the lethal shooting in Minneapolis.
Last week, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good as she was in her car trying to leave the scene of an immigration raid. Good’s killing sparked protests across the country and increased calls for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be impeached.
In the wake of Good’s killing, Vance joined a press conference at the White House where he claimed the officers involved have “absolute immunity.”
Marc Elias, a voting rights attorney, fact-checked Vance in a new interview with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen.
“This entire press conference by JD Vance was a constitutional crisis in a nutshell,” Elias said. “This guy is a trained lawyer. He went to Yale Law School … It sets the tone for just how off the rails JD Vance has become and how captive of the MAGA right-wing, someone who was once viewed as a thoughtful conservative, is now just a MAGA extremist.”
“JD Vance saying that there is absolute immunity is a lie,” Elias said. “He knows it’s a lie because, as I said, he’s actually a Yale-trained lawyer, and he is saying it because he is trying to smear the victim of a tragic shooting.”
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