The Senate Judiciary Committee will review some of the candidates President Biden nominated as “extremist, partisan and radical” when they were nominated by Congress last year.
The Senate convenes this week to work on legislation for the 118th Congress. With her narrow 51-49 majority, Democrats are expected to have a much easier time confirming Biden’s nominee than her 50-50 Senate victory last year. In the last Congress, a Republican protested eight of those candidates, citing a record of endorsing lenient sentences for violent criminals and supporting left-wing causes.
Dale Ho has been renominated as a judge in the Southern District of New York, and at a hearing last year Cruz said Biden had created a pattern of appointing extremists, partisans and radicals to executive and judicial offices. He said. Cruz said Ho’s record reflected the same pattern of finding “extreme partisans” and “radicals.”
Cruz said Ho, who has worked for the ACLU and NAACP, had launched a “tweet attack” against several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying, “These are not the inappropriate remarks you made when you were a teenager. Most of the tweets were from last year.”
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“I mean, in the last 12 months, or about the last 18 months, I have been involved in partisan attacks against multiple members of this committee,” Cruz said before referring to Ho’s tweet in 2017. rice field.
“In these dark times, I have been fortunate to find a tremendous sense of purpose in my work as a civil rights attorney. Do you do this because you want to help?People, or because you hate conservatives?”What he meant was that anger can actually be a tremendous source of power.” For me, righteous indignation brings a sense of moral clarity and can motivate the long hours required to get the job done…but it’s only a short term burst. Is not.”
The senator asked Ho how his earlier comments ensured conservatives his impartiality as a judge in court. defended his comments.
Another candidate who was re-nominated last year by the Republicans with enthusiasm is Rachel Bloomkatz, an Ohio public interest attorney who was nominated to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last year.
Last August, Bloomcutts faced brutal questioning from Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for defending 15-year-old Brandon Moore. Moore was sentenced to his 141-year prison sentence, and the trial court ruled that he “cannot be rehabilitated.” All the way to the Ohio Supreme Court, after arguing that Moore’s sentence violated the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment, Bloomcutts argued that he should release Moore early.
At the hearing, Bloomcutts argued that U.S. Supreme Court precedents should judge juveniles differently than adults, which Hawley said was “difficult to understand,” and said he defended the position of
“He’s a criminal. He was 15 when he committed a horrific crime. What he took from a young woman will never come back,” Hawley said.
Another candidate, New York District Court nominee Nusrat Jahan Chowdhury, spent most of her career as a senior attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and once had police harass unarmed black men. He claimed to kill each year. Day.
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When Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) asked Choudury about the issue at a hearing last year, she said she made the statement to make a “rhetorical point” during her work as an advocate. Stated.
Despite these Republican complaints, Democrats believe they will have the upper hand in this year’s nomination given the 51-49 split. When Democrats won a majority last year, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) said it would be “much easier” to see benching judges in the 51-seat majority. said it would.
“The real impact of a 51-seat majority is big. It’s important.
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“Obviously, judges and candidates will be much easier to bench. We’re very proud of our record with the judges.
“It’s amazing how the Republicans were able to use the 50-50 Senate to procedurally postpone so many appointments. rice field.
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Republicans need two Democrats “no” votes to block Biden’s nomination from being confirmed.
Houston Keene of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
