Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) has made a sport out of grilling Joe Biden’s radical picks to sit on the federal bench.
But not even Senator Kennedy could believe what happened in the latest confirmation hearing.
And John Kennedy was dumbfounded over one thing a Biden judicial nominee admitted under oath.
Sen. John Kennedy puts radical Biden judicial pick on the hotseat over his support for open borders and BLM
Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are working overtime to ram through as many Biden judicial nominees as possible before Republicans take power in January.
The latest radical Biden nominee to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee was Benjamin J. Cheeks.
Joe Biden nominated Cheeks for a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Kennedy used his time to take Cheeks for a trip down memory lane for a discussion about Cheeks’ past writings on the police, Black Lives Matter, and illegal immigration.
One article that Cheeks wrote and Kennedy cited revealed that Cheeks believed police officers were racist against black men.
“Well I want to read you from your article. Quote — your words, not mine — ‘Needless to say I have a guarded opinion about the police. How do I teach my sons to respect them and fear them at the same time? There can be no question that police officers have some of these same internal or external biases,’” Kennedy began.
Kennedy asked Cheeks if he quoted him correctly in saying that Cheeks thought police officers harbored racial bias towards black men.
“Let me repeat that. There can be no question that police officers, not some police, all police officers have some of these same internal or external biases described above. Do some of them view black males differently than others? I think so. Sounds like a position to me. Do some think black males are more dangerous than others? I think so. Did I read that correctly?” Kennedy asked.
Cheeks confirmed that those indeed were his words.
Kennedy then moved on to a 2018 article where Cheeks called for the decriminalization of illegal immigration.
“OK. And you were talking about it was then under President Trump, not President Biden, the Department of Justice then had a zero tolerance for illegal entry into the United States, because that of course is the law. And this is what you said about that,” Kennedy read.
“Quote,‘Technically the law was broken, but these particular defendants, poor, hungry, hard-working and not dangerous, deserve a pass from prosecution,’ end quote. Saying that illegal immigration should not be criminalized as a position, is it not?” Kennedy continued.
Cheeks tried to excuse those calls for open borders by saying he wrote those words when he was just an activist and not yet a magistrate judge.
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“It is. What I’d like to add is that those — everything that I wrote, I wrote while I was an advocate, not a sitting judge,” Cheeks replied.
That answer didn’t impress Kennedy in the least, who said it was an admission that Cheeks was dishonest.
“OK. So you’re — so — so you — you don’t tell the truth when you’re an advocate, but you do when you’re not? Is it OK to lie if you’re an advocate?” Kennedy asked.
Cheeks laughably claimed he didn’t understand the question.
Kennedy responded with one of his folksy sayings that have made him viral on social media.
“I think it’s pretty clear and I think you follow it,” Kennedy told Cheeks. “You’ve taken a lot of radical positions, judge, and you can’t make this cat walk backwards. Now you can’t make this cat walk backwards.”
Now if Republican Senators could just show up for work, they could block these radical Biden judges.