Yes, but …
Senators who have been through just their first hearing learn that unless they interrupt and control the witness, they get stonewalled and get nothing. “Senator - your time has expired.”
Garland looked sick for good reason. I’ve been on the receiving end of a federal court of appeals judge‘s control. They have immense power. Some like to show it. Some fear it. Garland enjoyed being able to intimidate and control, and Cruz put that shoe on another foot.
Garland knows damn well he was sending a message of political control and intimidation from the position of the highest federal police agency that parents better watch out if they oppose the New Woke Normal. He INTENDED to chill the middle by using the extreme. Yeah, the assholes who show up and cuss and threaten were the alleged REASON for the message, but they weren’t the TARGET.
Garland participated in telling the quiet parents to stay quiet or suffer being lumped in as a “domestic terrorist” - the newest slur on the list of the open-minded liberal, who just spent 4 years calling everyone who dared disagreed about anything - including budgets - a “racist” (like good little puppets) and now believe DNA deep (like a good little puppet) that every person who disagrees with them is a “domestic terrorist.”
”All of em are FOX News watching domestic terrorists” - the well-learned line of the next four years for easily-pliable propaganda receptacles.
These people make Richard Nixon look like a tenderfoot.