Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sparred with a legal professor during a Tuesday congressional hearing over nationwide injunctions issued by district court judges against President Trump’s administration.

Hawley, during the Senate Judiciary joint subcommittee hearing, presented a graph showing that the number of injunctions issued against Trump is far higher than other recent U.S. presidents.

“You don't think this is a little bit anomalous?” Hawley asked University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Kate Shaw.

“A very plausible explanation, senator, you have to consider is that he [Trump] is engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents, right,” Shaw said. You must concede that as a possibility.”

Hawley argued that nationwide injunctions, which judges have issued in recent mont

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