The occasion was a House Judiciary hearing on “executive overreach”.

The College Fix reports.

Law professor gets death threats for ‘Russian princess’ remark in transgender hearing

Silicon Valley’s congresswoman used her bully pulpit to sic a horde of narrow-minded keyboard warriors on a law professor who knows far more about the law than any of them.

Unfortunately for the University of San Diego’s Gail Heriot, she does not have the government protection that Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren can call upon at any time if she feels threatened.

As my colleague Jenn Kabbany noted last week, Lofgren called Heriot an “intolerant bigot” after the congresswoman read an out-of-context snippet from Heriot’s testimony.

The occasion was a House Judiciary hearing on “executive overreach,” and Heriot’s testimony focused on the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and its creative interpretation of Title IX.