As RedState readers know all too well, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) is a legend in her own mind.
The longtime Congresswoman and failed Houston mayoral candidate is known in Capitol Hill circles and beyond as the “Queen of Mean, and she has a history of saying some incredibly fact-challenged and “out there” (to put it mildly) things, including that the Constitution was “400 years” old. She also admitted back in July that she got into college due to affirmative action in House remarks criticizing the Supreme Court ruling that effectively struck down the use of such programs in college admissions.
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And after getting caught in a nasty, profanity-laced tirade against a staffer in 2023 (something she’s become notorious for over the course of the nearly 30 years she’s been in…