South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace appeared to threaten a colleague with a fistfight on Tuesday during a contentious hearing about the shape of the incoming Congress.
The confrontation, in which Mace challenged Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Democrat of Texas, to “take it outside,” erupted during a call for a civil rights subcommittee to be reinstituted. That prompted Mace to accuse Democrats of failing to protect women’s rights because of their support for transgender people.
