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
106, 103, 85
I think those IQs are too high for these clowns.
Makes you wonder what they have been doing in their past careers?
What careers?
Well Charnellle was an attorney general for 12 years and a judge for 9. At least she knows that.
She thinks that reciting her years on the bench is an acceptable substitute for knowledge.
Could they even pass a citizenship test? I think not!
seriously… a supreme court judge who doesn’t know the articles shows me how well she wil lexamine cases
I think it is a requirement for Dem nominees that they have no knowledge of the Constitution.
Community organizers
Affirmative action college admittance
Diversity hires.
Where the Kenyan got his start.
With a big assist from the see why aye i suspect
another illusion
What’s worse is we leave it to them to want to know. The answer is NOT I’ve been at this for 12 years and it never came up.
Yes, that is REALLY LAME.
This is beautiful.
These people believe that the core substance of a profession is less important than one’s melanin level. They believe that identity is more important than experience. They believe intent is more important than outcome.
What could possibly unfold badly with such people in charge?
Given that China is much more into merit than we are, they are the wave of the future while we are not.
It’s not a failure of leftist policy; it’s a feature — and strategy for destruction of the culture and the nation as founded.
Once you understand that the fascists (in the textbook literal sense) of the Donkey Party are aim at destroying our Constitutional foundation of the Republic, rather than preserving it … everything else falls into place.
It’s all degenerate fascist politics of compulsion and control for these people, all the time. Nothing else interests them. It is their religion, their sole purpose in life. THAT is why they do what they do – and it makes perfect sense once you understand them.
The feigned or actual ignorance is intentional. More and more judges do not accept the constitution or support the principles on which our country was founded.
It’s the same act that Ketanji Jackson pulled about “not being able to define a woman.”
^^^ This ^^^
Bill, you win! You are exactly right.
looks like it worked for her
Something tells me you wouldn’t want these individuals on your Jeopardy team.
I wouldn’t want them on my weekly trivia night team at the local pub!
In her previous job, Charnelle Bjelkengren got fired from the
M & M’s factory for throwing away all the W’s 🙂
Well, you know, everyone has a rough spell now and then.
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Can she even spell M & M?
You gave me a big smile. Just got home from trivia night. Rough night.
N/M
Alex, I will take “originalism” for $500…..
We don’t have serious people running things.
All of these picks are just political hacks for patronage.
What do they actually know, besides kissing the right asses to get nominated?
What a joke.
I don’t know that I would have done a lot better myself. But I would have done somewhat better. Perhaps Sen. Kennedy would cut me some slack since I’m a service manager in a hot rod shop, perhaps not.
Heaven help us.
I believe this is more a sign of heaven abandoning us for how far we have fallen from being a land of “moral and religious people”.
Well, being moral and religious tends to inform at least a minimum work effort.
Not abandoning us. Rather, permitting this to happen to us as an act of Divine Discipline.
Our Father never abandons us. Agape love doesn’t include abandonment.
We currently have a sitting Supreme Court Justice who can’t define what a woman is so why should we expect any of them to know about the law or the Constitution – but if you asked them to explain their pronouns and identify why one should use them well they’d have no problem answering. We are in deep trouble if this is NOT stopped soon.
Well that was very scary and very sad.
No to all of them.
They should seek employment elsewhere.
Might I suggest in eastern Ukraine.
Or BF Egypt.
Good God, Help us!
Was there a judge candidate there (likely high school and college educated, and experienced) ,
that can honestly, directly answer the actual question
from the contents of the memory within their own mind?
( without an internet search engine, often faulty, finding an answer? )
I do not know
imho
Thank you Mr. Kennedy for shining some more light.
Same can be said of todays doctors. I was going to a doctor, young female, who looked at a picture on the internet to diagnose me twice in one day and was wrong both times . I have not been to a doctor since and that was 2 years ago.
Recently had a doctor told me I needed new hearing aids. Because I couldn’t understand him through his accent. Should have told the idiot that my aids were less than a month old.
I love the people who have heavy foreign accents and also wear a mask who can’t figure out why I can’t understand a word they say. And, depending on the situation, that’s exactly what I say to them. I can’t understand a word you’re saying.
those stupid masks. I did have some nurses that was very happy to take them off , when I said I cannot understand you.
In a med. emergency, or serious ailment,
it can be like being caught between a rock and a hard place…
Keep your wits handy … : )
Pray for them…
Pay it forward ( good deeds )…
Love thy neighbors
He’s the best Kennedy ever.
Uh, no. There is one who was better.
You mean the one with a brother who wouldn’t listen to LBJ and failed to pass a civil rights?
“Judge Bjelkengren couldn’t even explain what Article II or Article IV of the U.S. Constitution are about. ”
Well, they would likely be ignored anyway, along with the rest of that document.
….. I am appalled.
head shaking and sighing
It’s probably good he did not ask them to define the basic foundation of the anti-federalist papers, that would have rendered them unable to think. No sarcasm intended, that was embarassing and ridiculous.
I know it’s serious, but I couldn’t help belly laughing…
…especially at the girl (she certainly wasn’t a mature woman with a brain) who kept starting every answer with “In my 9 years as bla bla bla…”
She appears to be under the misapprehension that time is equal to work even when one does absolutely nothing.
Great observation: “She appears to be under the misapprehension that time is equal to work even when one does absolutely nothing”.
How many times per day do you see that in practice during your day?
Kennedy’s exhale at the end before she was finished got me rollin
Wow!
It would be interesting to see what Sen Kennedys final vote is I would hope he would wax eloquently in his Louisiana drawl and say these people are too stupid to continue in the Judiciary
Oh my! I am not educated as a lawyer, have never spent time as a judge, but I can answer most of those questions. Anyone who has not heard of a witness taking the 5th or knows anything about recent Supreme Court cases to identify the 2nd amendment is truly not a bright spot for judicial appointment to a federal court.
And knowing that these candidates would be questioned by Congressmen, many of whom are lawyers, wouldn’t you be conscientious enough to look up the Constitution and a few recent Supreme Court cases to bone up beforehand? Or look at past questioning of judicial appointments by Congress and see the kinds of questions asked?
Truly stunning ignorance of the law. Diversity and equity have not produced thunderous intellects.
That’s okay as I believe you confused the the Articles of the Constitution with the Bill of Rights. An easy mistake, happens a lot.
“Article II and Article V” not 2nd and 5th Amendments
Article II sets up the requirements and powers of the Executive Branch of the federal government
Article V designates the two ways to amend or modify the US Constitution
That’s the thing; Senator Kennedy did not ask the candidates if they knew what the 5th or 2nd Amendment was, he specifically asked if they are familiar with Article 5 of the Constitution and Article 2 of the Constitution. Article 5 establishes the process for either both Houses, or the States to propose amendments to the Constitution; Article 2 establishes the Executive branch of the government.
That none of those candidates for federal court had no answer, and didn’t pick up on the apparent subtle distinction between an article of the Constitution vs an amendment, nervousness of appearing before the Senate aside, someone should have picked up on that question Senator Kennedy asked.
This was an appalling display of ignorance by those people who are already sitting as judges. Yikes.
I listened to that questioning again tonight on Tucker Carlson and suddenly realized he was asking about Articles, not amendments. Thank you everybody who were so nice about showing me what an idiot I was.
I do know what the articles say, but jumped to the conclusion that he was asking about amendments.
WOW!
I felt like I was back in Law School studying Statutory Interpretation and Constitutional Law.
The only difference the students were able to actually answer the questions.
We are so friggin doomed!
I think a first year law student at a top law school in the South or midwest could have answered any of those questions. Pathetic. But that’s affirmative action.
Good grief. Judge Bjelkengren is to be appointed for my area. Lord help us all.
He should have asked her to spell her name. Probably couldn’t.
I feel for you. This state is becoming a sewer.
Follow the J6 trials for a preview.
Oy Vey!
Just because a case has never been brought to any Judge, is no excuse for not knowing what, and why, the US Constitution was written for in the first place!
Folks, the Rule of law is gone if we, the people, don’t start learning the GD law as written (Constitution, Statutes) and using these in our favor, say goodbye to this Country. You don’t need to be a lawyer to understand the “Legal” definitions of the laws. All titles have them! GD… Use them!
forgive my blasphemy.
In fact, click this link below, and tell me how far this authority extends and what “State” actually means. Then ask yourself… why not just say all “50 states”. Was it written this way on purpose?
see 42 USC 264(d).
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/264
Gobbledygook…look no further than our porous southern border…who knows what diseases those people have.
“State” only applies to DC?
Who voted in HHS to anything?
VoteAllIncumbentsOut: The judges were dissembling. They know the laws and the statutes. The judges got the soundbites and video set pieces that their advisors and handlers wanted.
Thats why understanding for ourselves is very important, judges do not know the laws and statutes until you present it to them, along with court precedents.
Judges today have serious problem legislating from the bench. We need to stop that! It’s now or never folks!!
You ask too much. There are other ways to make your point without desecrating God’s name.
Exactly.
What an embarrassment!! Who are these people? Do you really think they are appropriate to serve the American people and our Nation? Thank you Sundance.
Retired Magistrate here: These “judges” are what is wrong with most of the current bench.
They go by emotions and feelings rather than the Constitution. Their rulings aren’t based on the way laws are written but the way they believe the laws should be written. That is why you have so many judges/magistrates legislating from the bench.
Additionally, it is extremely difficult to get a judge kicked off the bench or disbarred, unless of course, that judge happens to be a solid, conservative, constitution following judge.
Marcia: Exactly! These judges “reserve the right” to define and interpret laws as they choose. They are arrogant, condescending, and smugly disrespectful of anyone with the temerity to even attempt to pin them down.
What does the wood impartial mean? do they have an idea?
How many of them can unfortunately get hit by a train? I hear that’s a dignified way to go out, present company excepted of course.
Every court in their eyes is a court of “equity.”
Criminal court: “Well, he had a hard life and should not be convicted of murder, even though he was caught with the smoking gun in his hand, and finding him not guilty is equitable.”
Probate court: “We know he wasn’t listed in the will, but I will give him a piece of the pie because it’s the equitable thing to do.”
Divorce court: “Yes, we know he beats his children, but he should have full custody because it’s the equitable thing to do, and he is the breadwinner of the family.”
Contract dispute: “We know it’s an unambiguous clause in the contract and plainly lays out the terms, but the equitable thing to do is re-write it here in court, five years after the contract was signed.”
Words and their definitions, in the eyes of the left, mean nothing because they have on a black robe and anointed themselves Demigods.
I wonder if she knows now.
Well done Senator Kennedy.
Bananas: Kennedy knew darn well the response he would get. He was playing for the cameras; same as the judges. I am sure the judges knew in advance the questions they would be asked (at least in a general sense), and their responses were well practiced, including their “aw, shucks” delivery.
Just gobsmacking.
Why would anyone with half a brain approve these nominations
THIS…shall be the tell.
[ many in office may have a similar miss education of the facts… ]
52 dem senators just walking through the formalities of consenting to nominees…
…then voting yea or nay…
Do you really want to get entangled with current judges…
( primarily uttering a feeling, a judgement – under the guise of originally interpreting the language and meaning of the written law )?
p.s.
There are some good exceptions, very solid judges.
WOW! This clip served to validate my independent analysis of the IQs of America at this point in time, which in a nutshell is: 50% of the people are 100% stupid and 100% of liberals are idiots.
Your being too nice on that 50% figure, although I myself, would use ignorant vs stupid.
I would love to be able to agree but…..ignorance denotes non exposure to knowledge, which in today’s world is impossible. Stupid describes a willful ignorance, a much more serious condition than ordinary ignorance. As my dear, departed Dad always taught me: A man that knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a FOOL and should be ignored. There is no excuse for NOT knowing in today’s world of information.
Fairly or not, when we have a regime that elevates people to important positions based on the demographic boxes their selections check off, it shouldn’t be a surprise that performances such as those in the video would be attributed to affirmative action run amok.
And it’s so unnecessary. Joe Biden is the least functionally capable person, arguably, to ever occupy the office of President and yet he is woefully lacking in the demographics championed by his own administration. White, brown, red, yellow, mediocrity comes in all colors. Sanity would have dictated by now that more substantive criteria would have prevailed.
This is jaw dropping now.
And this is the future, if all university systems follow my alma mater University of Texas.
This agenda will be applied to their entire system…undergraduate, graduate, law school, all medical schools, every entity under the UT banner.
Madness.
https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/01/24/report-university-texas-austin-creates-bureaucracy-push-diversity-agenda/
Betsy, that “diversity agenda” has been in full force for at least a decade already. *All* college students, who have long been used to choosing freshman year ‘elective’ courses, are now *required* to take diversity and social justice courses. Required.
Moreover, our universities not only accept foreign student enrollments, but have placed American students at the end of the admissions line.
I know high school valedictorians who cannot get in to the universities of their choice, because they do not have a “compelling” background. Read: They are not foreign enough.
It’s all baked into the funding. Our tax dollars pay to educate and hire foreigners over Americans. This has been going on for a very long time.
An interesting aside: Asian students are far too educated for their liking, so they discriminate against them also.
None of this is about education. They not only indoctrinate, but dumb down the curriculum to match their desired freshmen. Literacy is no longer a requirement.
However, each of these demofascist nominees could wax philosophically on the “importance” of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This is the Fetterman standard. Install idiots who will be directed by the staff assigned to them. No different than a puppet.
I never went to law school, but I could have answered both doctrine questions. Reminds me of when Senator Blackburn asked Justice Jackson to define the meaning of “woman”. She refused for woke political reasons.
I would ask this question: “Is the purpose of the Constitution to confer or protect rights?”
My follow-up would be: “Is it more important to pursue justice for an individual or for an identity group?”
I think it’s important to not only expose their purposeful ignorance, but the indoctrinated bias that exists in their hearts and minds.
I can’t understand why people are appalled by their answers.
They don’t need to know the constitution nor actual law.
DEI is the rule book now.
Senator Kennedy’s question are irrelevant now.
The likes of Sen DICK Durbin of Illinois and the other Democrats now in Washington DC is setting America back to medieval times and maybe worse.
Shit ! Eastern Washington is my neighborhood. We got to get out of this state. Just got back from Nebraska for a wedding . What a cultural difference. The only graffiti I saw was on rail cars rolling through town. The ooze from Seattle is moving to the East side.
For those of us who can’t view u-tube…..
They look like total goofballs.
Someone call central casting…
These people should be permanently banned from any bench
US Constitution ? Ah…what’s that? I’m not familiar with that term.
What is this Constitutional Republic you speak of? All I hear these days is democracy democracy democracy.
“Captain? … What is aerodynamic stability?”
Your honor, in my 12 years as a copilot and my 4 years as a pilot … I have never experienced aerodynamic stability or instability. The autopilot handled all such mundane tasks as that. However, I was an outstanding communicator of estimated travel times, and the ground temperatures at our destination airport.
Wow absolutely pathetic. These people are a disgrace
They all sound like Kamala.
And for the same reason.
They have a cavity in their back that someone elses hand will occupy to make their lips move and their head nod.
You’re not too far off. Read up on mRNA injections, 5G technology and transhumanism.
Bjelkengren – look at my job history
Farbiarz – canned
Merchant – inarticulate
Three strikes, Joey.
I would rather have Beavis and Butthead as judges.
Me too.
By today’s standards, Beavis and Butthead radiate common sense.
I would feel, as a defendant, that I would have a chance of inarticulate, ’80s, meathead justice – as compared to these clowns whom I just watched Sen. Kennedy turn into thinly sliced microscope slides.
Thank the Good Lord for Sen John Kennedy. Sheeesh……these people are morons