Clay Higgins calls for ‘immediate ban for life’ for social media posts critical of Charlie Kirk

WASHINGTON (KLFY) — U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Lafayette) has called for anyone posting on social media critical of Charlie Kirk after his assassination to be banned for life.

In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter),

Higgins said he is “going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms” to enact such bans.

“If they ran their mouth with their smarta** hatred celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man who dedicated his whole life to delivering respectful conservative truth into the hearts of liberal enclave universities, armed only with a Bible and a microphone and a Constitution… those profiles must come down,” Higgins wrote. “So, I’m going to lean forward in this fight, demanding that big tech have zero tolerance for violent political hate content, and the user to be banned from ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER.”

This is a bit of a reversal for Higgins, who was a cosponsor of a bill in 2023, H.R. 140, called the Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act. That bill read, in part, “It is the policy of the Congress that employees acting in their official capacity should neither take action within their authority or influence to promote the censorship of any lawful speech, nor advocate that a third party, including a private entity, censor such speech.”

That bill, introduced by Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky), passed the House by a vote of 219-206, but died in the Senate.

“I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting; their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their driver’s licenses should be revoked,” Higgins continued. “I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination.”

Earlier, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill called for “consequences” in response to a post by a New Orleans firefighter who posted that the bullet that killed Kirk “has a right to be there because it’s a gift from god.”

“This comment on social media by a person in a position of public trust is unacceptable and disturbing,” Murrill wrote.

Latest news