Jasmine Crockett gets into a heated clash with MLK's right-winger niece

Religious conservative activist Alveda King came to a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday as a Republican star witness. She left rattled — and firing back at a Texas Democrat who questioned whether she has any right to her famous last name.

The confrontation erupted at a GOP-called hearing targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — already unraveling before Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) got the microphone. King, a Fox News contributor and chair of the America First Policy Institute's Center for the American Dream, had moments earlier shouted — according to Raw Story reporting — "Stop killing the babies and cutting the penises off!" derailing a Democratic colleague's questioning entirely.

Then Crockett took her turn.

She didn't go after the SPLC. She went after King.

"You want them to believe that somehow she espouses who Dr. King was," Crockett said, pointing out that the committee had not called Martin Luther King III or Dr. Bernice King — "the ones that were actually raised by Dr. King." She read aloud from MLK's book Why We Can't Wait and his 1967 speech "The Other America" to make her point plain.

The implicit charge: Alveda King, a vocal Trump booster who defended Georgia's controversial voting restrictions as consistent with her uncle's legacy, doesn't actually represent what her uncle believed.

King got her chance to respond — after Crockett had already walked out.

"It seems as though you have suggested that I am a b------ to the King family legacy," King said, her voice shaking. "I am legitimately the daughter of Rev. Alfred Daniel Williams King and Dr. Naomi Ruth Barber King. We are a family who loves God, and I love you. God bless you."

Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC), who yielded time so King could respond, made sure the absence was noted.

"Let the record reflect," Fry said, "that the gentlelady from Texas left the room."