Label this page Reporting. No official transcript or court-posted video of the November 27, 2023, Women’s White Collar Defense Association gala remarks was retrieved for this build. The quotes below are from contemporaneous reporting, chiefly Josh Gerstein at Politico, later repeated by NBC, Axios, and The Hill.
Politico reported that Howell said: “My D.C. judicial colleagues and I regularly see the impact of big lies at the sentencing of hundreds, hundreds of individuals who have been convicted for offense conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, when they disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election at the U.S. Capitol.” Politico also reported: “We are having a very surprising and downright troubling moment in this country when the very importance of facts is dismissed, or ignored.” Multiple outlets reported that she quoted historian Heather Cox Richardson on the United States being “at a crossroads, teetering on the brink of authoritarianism,” and that she did not name Donald Trump.
A reported speech is a reported speech. It is not a judicial finding. It is not a House impeachment article. Stefanik’s later complaint about the speech is on the next card.