Ted Cruz rages at Biden nominee for refusing to say if anti-gay Family Research Council is equivalent to the KKK

During a hearing to confirm President Biden's recent nomination of Nancy Abudu to the federal bench, Sen. Ted Cruz pressed her over her position as the Strategic Litigation Director for the civil rights advocacy group Southern Poverty Law Center, which Cruz described as a "hateful and extreme place," which has led to "horrific violence." Cruz started out his questioning of Abudu by mentioning the fact that the evangelical group Family Research Council, which has been designated as a hate group by the SPLC, was the scene of a 2012 attempted mass shooting when Floyd Lee Corkins II shot a security guard during a struggle when he was trying to enter the group’s headquarters in D.C. After the incident, Corkins told police that he wanted to kill as many people as possible and that he was targeting the FRC because of its anti-LGBT views. RELATED: GOP’s Marsha Blackburn fumes at Biden nominee over being included on ‘hate list’ "Do you agree with your employer that the Family Research Council is equivalent to the KKK or the Nazi party?" "Do you agree with your employer that the Family Research Council is comparable to the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazi Party?"