There was a time in American politics when even the most bitter rivals observed a basic code. You don’t slander the dead. You don’t twist the words of a murdered man who can never stand up to set the record straight. But decency is an inconvenience for a certain breed of politician — the kind who treats a congressional hearing as a stage for calculated cruelty rather than any honest search for truth.

Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing should have been a reckoning for the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization now under federal indictment for secretly funneling millions to the very hate groups it claims to oppose — including the Ku Klux Klan. The DOJ’s charges are staggering. The SPLC’s $829 million war chest is under scrutiny. And yet one Democrat congresswoman decided the real menace in the room wasn’t the outfit that reimbursed cross burnings. No — it was a young conservative who was assassinated nine months ago.

From The Post Millennial:

In a House Judiciary Hearing regarding the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) held on Tuesday, Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed that “white men are lecturing people of color,” and criticized a witness in the hearing, Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr, and read out of context quotes from the late Charlie Kirk.

She moved on to talking about the late Charlie Kirk, telling members of the committee, “I know some of y’all are, you know, capping for Charlie Kirk, because I done heard y’all talk about his organization over and over and over.” She went on to read out comments from Charlie Kirk that have been taken out of context.

Sit with that for a moment. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas — in a hearing about an organization indicted for bankrolling the KKK — chose to spend her time dragging a murdered man’s name through the dirt. Charlie Kirk was gunned down last September at age 31. The SPLC had labeled him a “Dangerous Extremist” in its Hate Watch newsletter the day before his assassination. Their CEO, Bryan Fair, refused to disavow that label when asked point-blank at Tuesday’s hearing. Crockett’s move? Pile on the dead man. Classy.

Every quote was a lie by omission

Crockett read three Kirk quotes to a cooperative witness, each one surgically stripped of its original meaning. She quoted Kirk expressing concern about a Black pilot’s qualifications — conveniently omitting that he was responding to United Airlines’ CEO announcing racial and gender quotas for pilot hiring. She quoted him criticizing the Civil Rights Act — leaving out that the Supreme Court itself has curtailed portions of that era’s legislation, and that Kirk explicitly endorsed the Act’s intent while arguing it had been weaponized to force biological men into women’s spaces.

She quoted Kirk raising concerns about dedicated Islamic enclaves. His actual point? Neighborhoods governed by Sharia law are incompatible with American liberty. Hardly radical.

TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet debunked every single quote in real time on air. But accuracy was never the point. The smear was the point.

Who’s really “parading” people of color?

Then came the moment that revealed everything about Crockett’s actual worldview. Rather than engage Dr. Alveda King — a Black woman, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., and a witness at the hearing — Crockett dismissed her as a Republican prop. She accused the GOP of parading “someone who has the name Dr. King attached to them so that people can be confused.” A sitting congresswoman looked at a Black conservative and told her she doesn’t truly represent her own family’s legacy. The arrogance is almost impressive.

Standing with the KKK’s benefactors

While Crockett savaged Kirk’s memory, the organization she rushed to shield stands accused of paying KKK members $1,200 monthly salaries, reimbursing cross-burning expenses, and allegedly helping organize transportation to the deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally — then raking in $80 million off the tragedy. (You really cannot make this up.) That’s the hill Crockett chose.

Charlie Kirk built Turning Point USA into the largest conservative youth organization in America. He was 31 when he was killed. He cannot answer Jasmine Crockett’s slander, and she knows it. That’s not bravery. It’s not righteous indignation. It is the lowest form of political cowardice — and every American with a functioning conscience recognizes it for exactly what it is.

Key Takeaways

• Rep. Crockett smeared assassinated Charlie Kirk with deliberately out-of-context quotes he can never rebut.
• Every Kirk quote Crockett cited was debunked — each was a reasonable policy critique, not racism.
• Crockett dismissed Dr. Alveda King’s testimony while defending the KKK-funding SPLC.
• Attacking the dead to shield a federally indicted organization is cowardice, not courage.

Sources: The Post Millennial, New York Post