Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley shredded a judicial nominee of President Joe Biden’s because of a piece she penned in 2017 where she attacked “bathroom bills.”

In her piece the nominee, Noel Wise, said that the legislation that required people to use the bathroom of the biological gender they are and “impossible burden” for the judicial branch.

“What’s this comment at the end of your article about ‘judges are obligated to see the world through a secular lens… When legislators blur the lines of church and state and enact laws that permit or prohibit conduct based on biologic[al] gender as only male or female… they place an impossible burden on our judiciary,’ what’s that mean?” the senator said. “That distinctions between male and female are a violation of church and state?”

His question left her in silence for a time until she gathered herself to answer.

“Judges have to be able to administer these laws,” Wise responded. “If the direction, and I have to tell you, I work really hard to get it right, to do exactly what Congress tells me to do and the legislature tells me to do, and as a result, if a doctor finds it difficult to identify at the moment of birth for certain children-,” she said before the senator interrupted her.

“Is a law that distinguishes between male and female a violation of church and state?” he said again.

“You say ‘When legislators blur the lines of church and state and enact laws that permit or prohibit conduct based on biologic[al] gender as only male or female… they place an impossible burden on the judiciary,” he said. “So this is a First Amendment violation?”

“When you are telling judges that in order to-,”  she began before the senator interrupted her again.

“I’m not telling you anything. I’m reading you your comments and asking you if you are still committed to them, and it sounds like you are,” he said.

“I have to tell you, I think these positions are insane, the senator said. “I think that the idea laws based on the distinction between male and female are a violation of church and state is insane. Totally insane.

“I think the idea that laws that would say women’s locker rooms are protected from biological men, that those are impermissible, that’s insane, but that’s what you say in this article. You’re going to have to recuse yourself from a lot of cases, aren’t you?” he said.