Tensions rose during a recent Senate hearing when Ted Cruz launched into an epic rant about the Democrats’ hypocrisy and corruption, leading Amy Klobuchar to aggressively push back in a furious meltdown as the rest of the Senate watched.

For context, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on April 2, 2024, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that Senate Democrats were using “lawfare” to obstruct the Trump Administration from moving forward, asserting that the party’s senators were vindictively lashing out at voters for electing President Trump. In response, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) reacted with a fiery, defensive tirade.

During the hearing, Sen. Cruz argued that Democrats “hate democracy” in the wake of President Trump’s election, saying, “Democrats today are angry at the voters for re-electing Donald Trump and electing a Republican Senate and a Republican House, and they engage in lawfare to stop democracy from operating.” He added, “Understand this is the second phase of lawfare.”

Continuing, Sen. Cruz argued that Senate Democrats were “seeking out individual radical judges to try to shut down policies,” adding that the apparent strategy of the party is to say, “‘Give me any loon judge put on the bench by Obama or Biden who disagrees with the policy.’” He continued, “They found a judge who says, ‘You know what? We, the Democrat party, are the party of illegal aliens. We are the party of murderers and rapists and gang members.’”

As tension built to a boiling point, Sen. Cruz said that the Democrat party “exists here to fight to keep murderers and rapists and gang members in our communities,” saying that he believes that that this mentality has destroyed the party’s approval rating. “There’s a reason the Democrat party is at 26% approval nationwide,” he continued, “Because they put radical policies ahead of rule of law.

Concluding his statement, Sen. Cruz argued that the injunctions imposed by activist judges are “an abuse of power,” adding, “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.”

In response, Sen. Klobuchar called Sen. Cruz’s statements “a lot,” and said emphatically that Democrats “love the democracy,” adding, “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.”

Following this pushback from Sen. Klobuchar, the Senate chamber descended into a back-and-forth between several lawmakers, with Sen. Cruz asking Sen. Klobuchar to explain why the injunctions filed by activist judges were not filed in “red districts,” with Sen. Cruz adding, “Why are the Democrat Attorney Generals seeking out left-wing loons?”

Watch the explosive exchange: