Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!
Posted on 02/05/2019 1:14:59 PM PST by jazusamo
Something about judicial confirmation hearings seems to trip up Sen. Cory Booker -- who got corrected by a high-profile nominee on Tuesday during a heated exchange about diversity on her staff.
Booker made headlines last September for cheekily declaring his “I am Spartacus” moment as he moved to release sensitive documents during now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing, only to be told they weren't so sensitive after all. On Tuesday, the New Jersey Democratic senator tried to turn up the heat once again while grilling Neomi Rao, the nominee to replace Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C., on whether she ever had any LGBTQ law clerks.
The question was part of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate's bid to explore her views on LGBTQ rights, given her past writings – but there was a problem: Rao currently isn’t a judge, and doesn’t have law clerks.
"Have you ever had any LGBTQ law clerks?" Booker asked.
Rao responded: "Senator, I've yet to be a judge. I don't have law clerks."
Booker didn’t miss a beat, and clarified that he meant “someone working for you.” Rao is currently the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a position described as the Trump administration’s “deregulatory czar."
“To be honest I don’t know the sexual orientation of my staff,” Rao responded. “I take people as they come, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation. I treat people as individuals.”
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Booker really is so fat and stupid
Oh, I have actually heard Corey Booker is faaaaabulously interested in LGBT anything..!
Like many of his fellow politicians, he is a nimble mimic, but little of substance emanates from his pea-brain.
Has Booker ever had any Evangelical Christians working for him?
I’ve heard that too, and believe it.
And the 2020 Dem candidate line-up just keeps paying dividends with every day that passes. Great answer by the nominee, exactly on point and the answer that simply shuts off the inquiry while pointing out the ignorance of the question(er).
Soon it will be, do you discriminate against pedophiles? Corey may be an expert.
Bump!
So he kinda took it in the Booker, huh?
And Gladiator movies!
“I am Spartacus!”
(Others may know me as a sexual preditor)
5.56mm
Bio of Neomi Rao:
After graduating from Yale University with highest distinction in ethics, politics, economics, and philosophy, Rao attended the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and received her Juris Doctor in 2000. She was the comment editor of the University of Chicago Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy for the Symposium edition. Rao clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas[6] from 2001 to 2002, and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 2000 to 2001.
Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!
Just T-Bone.
Booker is obsessed with the unusual.
Cory Booker is...Shartacus!
The MSM will not be able to protect Booker the way they protected Obama. There are so many rats clawing each other for the nomination, Booker won’t know who dumped on him.
Thanks for posting, a most excellent bio.
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