Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina displayed naked photos of herself Tuesday during a congressional hearing.
Mace has clashed with Republican Attorney General Alan Wilson of South Carolina over his failure to prosecute sex offenses since February, when she criticized his handling of video recordings of herself and other women she alleged were taken by her ex-fiancée without consent. Mace said during a hearing held by the House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation that hidden cameras violated privacy rights. (RELATED: ‘Wouldn’t Last 30 Seconds At The Citadel’: Nancy Mace Blasts ‘Bully’ George Stephanopoulos Over Heated Interview)
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“Liberty begins with the right to close a door. A hidden camera kicks that door off its hinges,” Mace said in an opening statement posted on X. “The Constitution’s Fourth Amendment enshrines a ‘reasonable expectation of privacy.’ Yet today, that freedom is violated by secret cameras and hidden devices to record women and girls with impunity.”
“Freedom is not a theory; it is the right to breathe, to dress and undress, to sleep without someone’s camera filming your naked body,” Mace continued. “The Founders wrote liberty in parchment; hidden cameras erase it in pixels.”
Mace used the hearing to push for two pieces of legislation, the Stop VOYEURS Act (H.R. 1203) and the Sue VOYEURS Act (H.R. 1204), both of which she introduced in February.
Mace’s February speech accused her ex-fiancée, Patrick Bryant, and three other men of illicitly filming women, some of whom were drugged and sexually assaulted. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division confirmed Bryant was under investigation Live 5 News reported.
Mace split with Bryant in late 2023 after the two announced their engagement in May 2022.
“I am living proof that even as a Member of Congress, I found myself face-to-face with the darkest corners of humanity. You really think you know someone until you don’t,” Mace said in February. “In November of 2023, I accidentally uncovered some of the most heinous crimes against women imaginable. We are talking about rape, nonconsensual photos, nonconsensual videos of women and underage girls, and the premeditated, calculated exploitation of women and girls in my district.”
Bryant did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation, but denied Mace’s allegations in a statement to local media.
“I categorically deny the false and outrageous claims made by Nancy Mace,” Bryant said in the statement sent to FIST News. “I have never raped anyone. I have never hidden cameras. I have never harmed any woman. These accusations are not just false—they are malicious and deeply personal.”
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