Overview
- Rep. Susie Lee, responding to an Associated Press post, wrote a late-night X message early Wednesday using multiple F-words about President Trump’s planned Supreme Court visit, then deleted it after it spread via screenshots.
- Lee followed up hours later by defending her tone, saying her “nerve was touched” by what she called attacks on the Constitution and citing her oath to protect it.
- Screenshots of the deleted post continued to circulate as Republicans and conservative commentators condemned her, and the NRCC issued a statement calling her “Nevada’s fool.”
- Trump attended Supreme Court arguments Wednesday on his executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship, a 14th Amendment issue that traditionally grants citizenship to nearly all people born in the United States, and several reports said justices sounded skeptical ahead of a summer ruling.
- The flap lands in Nevada’s competitive 3rd District, which Trump won by less than a point in 2024, and national Republicans already list Lee’s seat as a top flip target.