Sens. Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar get into heated exchange during hearing.

Democrats today hate democracy. Democrats today are angry at the voters for reelecting Donald Trump and electing a Republican Senate and Republican House. And they engaged in lawfare to stop democracy from operating. Understand this is the second phase of lawfare. Second chart. This is the second phase of lawfare. Now that their efforts to indict President Trump and stop the voters from reelecting him have failed, they’re going and seeking out individual radical judges to try to shut down policies. And they are forum shopping like crazy. Give, give me any loon judge put on the bench by Obama or Biden who disagrees with a policy we just saw a judge flagrantly ignore U.S. immigration law concerning TPS being revoked. U.S. law explicitly said there’s no judicial review for that, but hey, they found a judge who says, you know what, we, the Democrat party, we are the party of illegal aliens. We are the party of murderers and rapists and gang members. And the Democrat party exists here to fight, to keep murderers and rapists and gang members in your communities. There’s a reason the Democrat party is at 26% approval nationwide because they put radical policies ahead of rule of law. Nationwide injunctions are an abuse of power. It is the judiciary acting as policy deciders, and it is incumbent on this committee and this body to rein in the abuse of power from these unelected radical judges who are trying to overturn the election because they disagree with what the voters decided. Thank you, Senator Cruz. Senator Klobuchar. Okay. That was a lot. Um, let me, uh, start with a few things. Uh, number one, um, we love the democracy and I believe what we should be having is a civil debate about how we can best, if Donald Trump wants to make changes to the government, we should be doing it in a legal way, not how he’s doing it. And the only reason there’s all these injunctions, Senator Cruz, is because he’s violating the constitution. Why would Trump appointed judges? Why don’t you file them in red districts? Senator Cruz. Why? What did you just say? Why don’t you file them in red districts? Why are the Democrat attorney general seeking out left-wing, blue, single, white districts? We’ve been quite patient with Senator Cruz’s activity in this building. Senator Whitehouse, I’m just going to ask for a point of order. Madam Klobuchar, Senator Klobuchar. Senator Moody, we have debates on this committee. They occur regularly. Let’s let her have her time and then we’ll get back to that. If you want to wait, we’ll get back to Senator Cruz. Senator Klobuchar, go ahead. It’s her choice. Go ahead. And I would encourage you to answer. I’m so excited to be following Senator Cruz once again. Excuse me? But I will say this. Excuse me? I didn’t hear you. What did you say? To be following him. He and I have a long standing. I was permitting you your time to continue. Oh, to be following him in order. Excuse me. Go ahead, Senator Klobuchar. And I have a long standing debate during hearings. Go ahead, Senator Klobuchar. That’s what I’m referring to. Go ahead. And I will take more than my time since he’s taken more than his time to yell at me. Go ahead. I will say that I’m not yelling. I asked a question. Senator Cruz, please. I’ll give you time, Senator Klobuchar. I’ve got the time and you’ll be a lot. I am making the strong case that the reason all these cases have been filed and the reason that these judges who have been appointed by Ronald Reagan. Yes, they still exist. And the Bushes and Donald Trump, judges appointed by Donald Trump, have been making these decisions is because this is not legal. Donald Trump himself has used his social media account, the White House account, to post an image of himself wearing a crown saying Long Live the King. The issue is that we do not live in a kingdom and Elon Musk is not his court jester. Ours is a nation of laws in which no one is above the law. That is why 39 different judges from vastly different backgrounds appointed by five different presidents have made clear that these are illegal actions. And these judges have rightly blocked these actions. And it is important that we not lose sight of the underlying cause of these injunctions. It is not that these judges are crooked or lunatics or evil. Those are words used by the president and his allies. It is because the administration is violating the Constitution. What happens when they use these kinds of words? You see more and more threats against judges. And that is what we’re seeing. That is why federal judges and the U.S. marshals who are responsible for protecting them are sounding the alarm about a spike in threats against judges. This is serious. And unlike what Senator Cruz said, I’m remembering when the threat was made, the horrific threats and the man was in Justice Kavanaugh’s on his neighborhood on his street on a bipartisan basis. We came together and got more funding for the judges and changed things so that they had more protection. So what he said was completely untrue in terms of Democrats and Republicans decrying violence. We didn’t just decry the violence. We actually did something about it in response to a court that is run by Justice Roberts, who is a Republican appointee. So I think that kind of language actually makes a situation worse when it’s not even true. But unfortunately, Senator Cruz left, so he did not hear my response to what was a lie.