Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) questioned a series of Joe Biden Federal District Court nominees today including: (1) Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren who is nominated to be United States District Judge for The Eastern District of Washington; (2) Matthew P. Brookman, to be United States District Judge for The Southern District of Indiana; (3) Michael Farbiarz, to be U.S. District Judge for the District Of New Jersey; (4) Robert Kirsch to be U.S. District Judge for The District of New Jersey, and (5) Eleta Merchant to be U.S. District Judge for The Eastern District Of New York.
Judge Bjelkengren couldn’t even explain what Article II or Article IV of the U.S. Constitution are about. It gets worse from there.
Perhaps Senator John Kennedy did not mean to expose the outcome of affirmative action, diversity and social equity as a qualification for a federal court judge, but it happened anyway. This is beyond cringeworthy, and, well, just wow. WATCH:
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“President Biden and Senate Democrats have made it a priority to elevate judicial nominees from demographically and professionally diverse backgrounds, and during the 117th Congress, we have shattered records when it comes to diversity on the federal bench… [including] a record number of nominees with experience serving not only as prosecutors, but also as public defenders, voting rights experts, and civil rights attorneys… Every one of these jurists is highly qualified and ready to serve our nation and the American people.” ~ Senator Dick Durbin, Chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee
social equity ..make the dems defend it..Embarrassing….
Painful to watch. Certainly we can do better than this!!
No kidding. I’m not a lawyer and could have formulated better answers
Affirmative Action produces the-cream-of-the-crap … also known as government quota mandates guaranteed to destroy.
Equity” is a code for racism. “Equal outcome” is also racist and sexist .
I sit on interview panels as part of my job. It’s perfectly okay not to select any of the candidates. Maybe we get short-handed for a while, but it’s better than filling positions with incompetent boobs that can’t actually do the job.
Judges that can’t answer simple questions about the Constitution should never be considered for higher positions.
How did they pass the Bar or even graduate law school?
Because Slanta, this is typically what these “institutions” are turning out.
Sad and disgusting.
There’s a box. They put a check mark in in it. Poof law degree from Harvard and Yale.
Participation trophies.
They got extra points on their test-scores for the quota categories they qualified for … also known as a participation ribbon.
The same way that Barack Hussein Obama did – it’s all political. No one ever saw him at Columbia Law School. Obama was never a constitutional scholar, all he did was lecture by reading a paper someone else wrote. And the only thing he lectures about is racism; nothing about the Constitution. He also calls Americans’ rights a “notion.”
This is what our indoctrinated schools and colleges are turning out! And this is better than what’s coming through the system now! Total imbosols dishing up big words to make it sound as though they are educated. But in fact shows the opposite. This is exactly what the deepstate of this country intended. To gradually do away with the knowledge of the Constitution, the ‘originalism’ embedded within it and eventually completely just tear it up! There will be no one in the judiciary that knows, believes or remembers the Constitution. We can not let that happen!
Apparently I’m more qualified to be a federal judge than the political idiots nominated.
Also, let’s be honest, these folks weren’t selected for their knowledge of the law, they were selected for their political reliability.
Embarrassing as it is to say, in addition to being the perfect political suck-ups, these people were also specifically nominated for their race/ethnicity, gender and age. Basic knowledge and a sound understanding of the law was obviously waaaay down on the list of requirements, if indeed required at all.
Did these people get confirmed?🙄😳🥹
This lady has firsthand knowledge of what the Democratic policy created ; poverty
……..inequality ….
Out of time?!?!?!!?
For such an important position, 5 minutes is not enough time to question 5 candidates for the job they are pursuing!
I would guess 5 minutes PER CANDIDATE might be a good starting point…
My AP high school kids know more than these clowns. Suppose there’s any chance of these fools being outed on national tv news shows? Nah, me either.
God…they all absolutely refuse to acknowledge & say His name. God is the originalist they choose to ignore. This also means they don’t acknowledge unalienable rights…the God given right to life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness.
None of these people should be judges, period.
This is what you get when you choose your nominees based on diversity. Why not just choose the best candidates for the job? Block every single one of these nominees. They are clearly not qualified for the position.
As always, whatever a dem tells us, the truth is the EXACT opposite.
The contrast between Mr. Kennedy and this gaggle is indescribable, and horrifying.
If good men do not stand against this onslaught our nation will NEVER survive.
God Help Us.
It’s no longer the criminal justice system, it’s the CRIMINAL JUDCICIARY SYSTEM.
So this group is nominated to be a federal judge. You would think that the Constitution would play a considerable role in the cases that he/she/it would be hearing. You would further think that the person making the nomination would have spoken sufficiently with each potential nominee to know whether or not the nominee had a clue about the US Constitution or not.
Logical conclusion: either the person/people making the nominations don’t care if the nominee knows anything about the Constitution or not OR the person/people making the nominations want to be sure that the nominee doesn’t care about the Constitution because they mutually want the Constitution rendered null and void and replaced with a globalist “bible”.
Maybe there needs to be a minimal competency test given to any and all nominees on their knowledge of the US Constitution and the laws of the US. Doctors must pass tests to be granted a license as do dentists, teachers, chiropractors, electricians and plumbers. Sure lawyers pass a test but it is usually state specific. Federal judges must have a working knowledge of both the Constitution, federal laws and laws within their jurisdiction!
By the way, what was Brookman reading or looking at? Did someone highjack Sen. Kennedy’s questions?
WHat an embarrassing display of ignorance and the best example of the problem with equity- this is why we have a Cackling VP who hasn’t ever gotten to the point in any speech she’s made over the past two years; why we have a head of the Fed who doesn’t know the definition of “recession” ( 2 consecutive quarters of negative GDP – I learned that in high school economics class); a Transportation secretary who is so busy trying to impose “equity ” on roads and planes ,resulting for the first time since 9/11, all US planes were grounded for a day (maybe he should spend less time on Equity and educate himself on transportation) and the STUPIDEST Press Secretary in my lifetime who hits the equity trifecta (Back, female and gay). And somehow, the Dems think this is acceptable…..
God help us now!! Leftist ignorance in the legal community is at a pandemic level.
If I hear 12 years as a judge but I am unaware of what the Constitution says again, I’ll apply to Harvard Law.
Apparently a member of gop senate is looking to block senate consent of
Brandon appointments ( judges, dept. assistants etc. )
– until
the contents of the insecure classified documents – found in garage etc. –
are disclosed to the senate.
[ how would they know if they are seeing all of the contents ? ]
Link:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/26/tom-cotton-block-biden-nominees-over-admins-classified-document-stonewalling/
Apparently, no one studied or crammed for the finals. Stay above the law, People, because these people are not ready for prime time.
“I was not faced with that precise question”: The woke word salad translation of “No, I do not know.”
These SB’s (Stupid bastards) are so stupid that they all think that forced bussing hurts!
Pathetic.
(01/26/23-Reuters) – Senator Lindsey Graham, the new top Republican on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday called for a shift in how GOP senators approach President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees as he urged them to work with Democrats to confirm more judges. Graham, a South Carolina Republican [RINO], made those remarks at the start of the panel’s first hearing on Biden’s judicial nominees of 2023, as five of the Democratic president’s picks to serve on district courts went before the committee.
Sen. Lindsay Graham is a perfumed parlor snake. An illegal alien, one Trevor Noah, admitted to Lindsay ‘Pansy’ Graham that he is an illegal alien. Trevor Noah owns a $10 million condo and another expensive property as well. It is Graham’s DUTY as a senator to report and enforce the law and have Trevor Noah arrested and deported but scumbag Graham has done NOTHING though Trevor Noah has been here for some years.
While the bulk of what these nominees regurgitated in response to Sen Kennedy’s queries was, well, putrid bile, I do think that Merchant’s response, while highly inarticulate, eventually got close to the mainstream definition of originalism. But given her otherwise odious record as purely an environmental and racial activist she is clearly not capable of fairly judging anyone or anything.
A sad thing is that “Joe Biden” will never see these embarrassing video clips.
Indeed, he would be unable to cite the name of even one of the five nominees. Probably he wasn’t involved in their selection.
FJB is just ‘old and in the way.’
Every time I hear Senator Kennedy speak, he reminds me of Mr. Haney from Green Acres.
Unlike the obnoxious Haney, Senator Kennedy has wit and intelligence and poses piercing questions to illuminate those stupid scumbags who are inept and totally unfit for office.
“Kennedy earned the highest honors at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar, and he was executive editor of the Virginia Law Review at the not-too-shabby University of Virginia law school.”
Apparently, Oxford University and UVA Law School had no problems with Sen John Kennedy’s “Haney Speak”,…. they were more concerned with his brain than his tongue.
In the USA we practice E Pluribus Unum,… which means we accept all accents in America, no matter how quaint or parochial.
🤣lol!
Southeners are often adroit in using the “ignorant” accent in the tactic of underestimation.
Has served us well, many times, dealing with arrogant Yankees….
“Arrogant?…. Bless their Hearts!”
My Senator, John Kennedy, should have asked this Judicial candidate about the 10 Articles of Marxist Wokeness. I am sure this Idiot would have passed with flying colors,… besides, Biden’s Marxists eschew the US Constitution cuz it restrains their demonic “democracy”.
(TY, Sen Kennedy,… let these Fools expose themselves)
I am not a lawyer or a judge, so I had to look up the meaning of purposivism. Now that I know the definition, I am even more appalled that these candidates could not answer Senator Kennedy’s basic questions. Beyond that, I love the reaction of the kid behind her, when the “judge on the end’ could not answer a basic question about the US Constitution.
WOW! That is very scary…these are top level judges that require top level appointments. Go back and review the confirmation of SCOTUS Barrett. She answered every question poised to her. What’s up with these people?
What the heck, this is the best we have? My depression worsens every day, BUT, I’ll never give up….we must continue to, “…throw sand in the machines.”
This is an extreme imbarassment. These are the best candidates for interpreting the constitution. Can any define a woman?
Maybe require a refresher in constitutional law before any can be an appointee. They, only take those with the highest scores.