Ever the Free Speech advocate–but only when your speech supports his views–Senator Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo) called on the administration of Stanford Law School to punish students who protested the appearance of ultra-conservative, anti-LGBTQ rights, anti-women’s rights judge Kyle Duncan on campus, Fox News reports.

Arguably the most reviled member of the Senate (with recent challenges from Ron Johnson, Josh Hawley, and Rick Scott while perennial hopefuls Rand Paul and Tom Cotton hang on), Cruz was perturbed that students voiced disapproval of the judge’s persistent reversal of human rights while he was invited to address the campus chapter of the Federalist Society.  Ever the conservative, Duncan didn’t even pretend to be a civil servant, instead provoking the audience by walking into the lecture hall recording the protestors on his cell phone, saying he wanted to “make a record.”  After a faculty member and a student leader calmed the crowd, Duncan skipped his speech set about attacking the students, saying to one, “you are an appalling idiot.”

“It was deeply disturbing to watch the viral video that captured Stanford Law students harassing and insulting Judge Kyle Duncan, a sitting federal circuit judge, who had been invited by the school’s Federalist Society chapter to speak at a school-sanctioned event,” Cruz wrote school administrators, adding “Stanford Law School is well within its rights to discipline these students for their behavior, and indeed, I strongly urge the school to do so.”