Ann Coulter Reconsiders Women’s Right to Vote After Republican’s Comments

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter questioned women’s right to vote on Tuesday after referencing comments made by U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik during a congressional hearing last week.

Coulter criticized Stefanik, a Republican representing New York, and several other women in a Substack post published on Tuesday, ending with the claim that it was time to reconsider women’s suffrage because of their alleged actions against free speech.

Last week, Stefanik and other congressional education committee members questioned presidents of top universities over the rise in antisemitic protests and violence on campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war. Among the testimonies was that of Harvard President Claudine Gay, who was questioned by Stefanik about what type of speech was protected at Harvard, mentioning a student who called for the “mass murder of African Americans.”

“Is that OK for students to call for the mass murder of African Americans? Is that protected free speech?” Stefanik asked Gay.

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Coulter referenced Stefanik’s questions about free speech in her Substack headline, which took a shot at the Republican representative by claiming that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) understood the First Amendment better than she did. The subhead read, “Why is it always women ignoring basic constitutional rights?”

Coulter’s claims came after the ACLU surprisingly represented the National Rifle Association (NRA) in a lawsuit filed by the latter, accusing former superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services Maria Vullo of violating the First Amendment. According to the NRA, Vullo attempted to blacklist the organization when she encouraged banks and other organizations to cease business with the NRA following the 2017 Parkland, Florida, school shooting that killed 17 people, according to a report in The New York Times.

The ACLU said that despite not supporting the NRA or its mission, the organization “signed on as co-counsel because public officials shouldn’t be allowed to abuse the powers of the office to blacklist an organization just because they oppose an organization’s political views,” according to the report.

A panel of judges has since ruled against the NRA, and Coulter called out Vullo, Stefanik and a slew of other women who were “in the news this week for abrogating the fundamental constitutional right to free speech” in her Substack post.

“Once again, it is time to reconsider our rash experiment with women’s suffrage,” Coulter wrote after listing five women and “every [human resources] representative” in the post.

Newsweek reached out to Coulter and Stefanik’s press office via email for comment Tuesday.

Coulter’s Substack isn’t the first public media criticizing Stefanik over her line of questioning last week. Over the weekend, a Saturday Night Live skit enraged some Republicans after it poked fun at Stefanik and others involved in the hearing.

North Carolina Representative Greg Murphy has demanded an apology from SNL over its portrayal of Stefanik.

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