'Offensive and uneducated': Dem dresses down lawyer at House hearing over Gestapo remark

A Vermont Democratic lawmaker tore into a right-wing lawyer during a Wednesday afternoon hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution after he compared FBI agents to the German secret police under Nazi Germany.

The lawyer in question, Steve Crampton, is a former candidate for Mississippi Supreme Court and senior counsel for Thomas More Society, a Catholic-affiliated public interest law group known for its litigation against abortion rights and LGBTQ rights. The hearing...