Law professor humiliates Josh Hawley during Senate committee hearing

Prof. Khiara Bridges/Sen. Josh Hawley
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University of California law professor Khiara Bridges called out Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) for being transphobic in the middle of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier today.

Bridges was testifying at a committee hearing about the legal consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the federal right to an abortion in the U.S.

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In her testimony, Bridges referred to “people with a capacity for pregnancy.” Her testimony was not specifically about transgender and non-binary people who can get pregnant – she was there to discuss the legal impacts of the decision on everyone and she spent more time highlighting the impacts on Black people – but she did use trans-inclusive language.

And that set Hawley off.

“Professor Bridges, you’ve said…

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