JOSH HAWLEY: You don't have any rights under the 5th Amendment because you've been pardoned as you very well know, as the Supreme Court has been clear for a century or more, Brown versus Walker, 1896, "When he has been pardoned he may not stand upon his privilege."

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— Stephen Coughlin (@S_Coughlin_DC) July 29, 2026

I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the 5th Amendment to the Constitution. 

00:08.  Let's just get one thing straight.  You don't have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because you've been pardoned as you very well know as the Supreme Court has been clear for a century or more, Brown versus Walker, 1896.  " when he has been pardoned he may not stand upon his privilege." You know that.  Your lawyer sitting behind you now shifting nervously in their chairs, they know it.  This isn't about the Constitution. This isn't about the law.  This is about contempt, contempt for this body and contempt for the American people.  But I think I know why you're doing it, that is because you don't want to answer questions it's because you did all kinds of terrible things.  It's because during the pandemic you got rich, didn't you?  You got rich while people we're dying, hundreds of thousands of Americans, over a million in the end, and you were getting rich. And not only were you doing that, you were using federal employees with taxpayer money to apply for and solicit cash prizes for you personally, cash prizes totaling over a million dollars.  You did all of that during the pandemic.

Joshua David Hawley (born December 31, 1979) is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Missouri, a seat he has held since 2019.