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COTTON: "Well, you keep citing news reports, and that's the most prominent news report that anyone in America has seen. That refers to Scott Smith, whose 15-year-old daughter was raped. She was raped in a bathroom by a boy wearing girl’s clothes. And the Loudoun County School Board covered it up because it would have interfered with their transgender policy during Pride Month. And that man, Scott Smith, because he went to a school board and tried to defend his daughter’s rights, was condemned internationally. Do you apologize to Scott Smith and his 15-year-old daughter, judge?"
GARLAND: "Senator, anyone whose child was raped is a most horrific crime I can imagine and is certainly entitled and protected by the First Amendment to protest to their school board about this."
COTTON: "But he was cited by the School Boards Association — "
GARLAND: "That’s fine, but that's not
COTTON: " — as a domestic terrorist, which we now know that letter and those reports were the basis — "
GARLAND: "No, senator, that’s wrong."
COTTON: "This is — judge, this is shameful. This testimony, your directive, your performance, is shameful. Thank God you're not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, judge."