Republican lawmakers like Mike Lawler must stand up to Trump | Opinion

By Emily Feiner

This past Sunday night, I was physically dragged out of Kennedy Catholic Preparatory School auditorium in Somers, New York after asking my Congressman, Rep. Mike Lawler, what red line Donald Trump would need to cross for Mr. Lawler to finally stand up to these attacks on our Constitution.

I didn’t attend the town hall expecting to be forcibly removed. I didn’t expect to have my image plastered all over the internet. In fact, it feels like a cosmic joke that my family has once again found ourselves at the center of a free speech debate.

In 1949, my father, Irving Feiner, was arrested for making a speech on a street corner in opposition to racial segregation. The police ordered my father to stop speaking, claiming that he was trying to incite a riot. When he refused, they arrested him.

Emily Feiner is carried out of the Mike Lawler Town Hall in Somers by state police.