Part of: Musgrave v. Mace (2:25-cv-01823-RMG)
"Take me to jail", Nancy Mace brings handcuffs to the House floor
A vertical supercut of Rep. Nancy Mace's February 10, 2025 House floor speech, in which she said she had been told she would be investigated and could be arrested for coming forward, then held up handcuffs and told the chamber, "If anyone would like to arrest me for standing up for women, here are my wrists. Arrest me. Take me to jail." It closes on her January 2026 written statement to the court that a judge would have to throw her in jail before she is silenced. The men she has accused deny her allegations and the civil litigation is ongoing.
On February 10, 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace took the U.S. House floor, said she had been threatened with investigation and arrest for coming forward, and held up a pair of handcuffs.
This vertical supercut draws the arrest-and-jail thread out of that 52-minute speech, each moment cut from Mace's own official YouTube upload and captioned word for word from the audio:
- Investigated. She told the chamber that after turning evidence over to law enforcement she was told that she, as a victim, would be investigated. "Investigated for what?"
- Arrested. "During the last year, more than once, I was told I could be arrested. Arrested for what?" She framed both as tactics used to intimidate victims into silence.
- Handcuffs. She held up handcuffs at the podium: "If anyone would like to arrest me for standing up for women, here are my wrists. Arrest me. Take me to jail."
- The offer stands. Nearly a year later, in a January 2026 victim impact statement to the court in Berg v. Bryant, she wrote: "Your Honor, you will have to throw my ass in jail before I am silenced."
The allegations Mace makes are unproven and contested; the men she has named deny them; the related civil litigation is ongoing and no court has ruled on the merits. What the footage documents is a sitting member of Congress's own words, under no oath, from the House floor, alongside her own written statement to the court.
Source: Mace's official YouTube channel ("Congresswoman Nancy Mace") upload of the February 10, 2025 floor session; the closing card quotes her victim impact statement filed in Berg v. Bryant, Case No. 2025-CP-10-03124 (public record). The fuller twelve-moment supercut of this same speech is also on the site.
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