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Cory Booker schooled by Kavanaugh replacement pick after question on ‘LGBTQ law clerks’
Fox News ^ | February 5, 2019 | Andrew O'Reilly

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corybooker; crackhouses; democratclownshow; flamboyant; gayspartacus; homosexualagenda; judicialcommittee; judicialnominee; lgbtq; neomirao
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Booker has a habit of engaging mouth before brain, what little brain he has.
1 posted on 02/05/2019 1:14:59 PM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Booker really is so fat and stupid


2 posted on 02/05/2019 1:16:35 PM PST by WashingtonFire (The charisma of Reagan + the vision of Jefferson + the patriotism of Washington = Trump)
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To: jazusamo

Oh, I have actually heard Corey Booker is faaaaabulously interested in LGBT anything..!


3 posted on 02/05/2019 1:17:06 PM PST by gaijin
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I treat people as individuals

This will be declared "hate speech" under the to be proposed Democratic Soylent Green New Deal. :-(
4 posted on 02/05/2019 1:18:35 PM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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Booker has a habit of engaging mouth before brain, what little brain he has.

Like many of his fellow politicians, he is a nimble mimic, but little of substance emanates from his pea-brain.

5 posted on 02/05/2019 1:18:48 PM PST by Salvey
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Has Booker ever had any Evangelical Christians working for him?


6 posted on 02/05/2019 1:18:55 PM PST by guitar Josh
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To: gaijin

I’ve heard that too, and believe it.


7 posted on 02/05/2019 1:19:19 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

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).


8 posted on 02/05/2019 1:20:01 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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Soon it will be, do you discriminate against pedophiles? Corey may be an expert.


9 posted on 02/05/2019 1:20:48 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: T-Bird45

Bump!


10 posted on 02/05/2019 1:21:02 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: WashingtonFire

So he kinda took it in the Booker, huh?


11 posted on 02/05/2019 1:21:55 PM PST by blackdog
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"Oh, I have actually heard Corey Booker is faaaaabulously interested in LGBT anything..!"

And Gladiator movies!

12 posted on 02/05/2019 1:22:33 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: jazusamo

“I am Spartacus!”

(Others may know me as a sexual preditor)

5.56mm


13 posted on 02/05/2019 1:23:00 PM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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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.


14 posted on 02/05/2019 1:23:37 PM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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MAGA!

Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!

Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

15 posted on 02/05/2019 1:24:02 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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Has Booker ever had any Evangelical Christians working for him?

Just T-Bone.

16 posted on 02/05/2019 1:24:56 PM PST by Drew68
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To: jazusamo

Booker is obsessed with the unusual.


17 posted on 02/05/2019 1:25:04 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: jazusamo

Cory Booker is...Shartacus!


18 posted on 02/05/2019 1:25:56 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: jazusamo

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.


19 posted on 02/05/2019 1:26:22 PM PST by allendale (.)
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To: entropy12

Thanks for posting, a most excellent bio.


20 posted on 02/05/2019 1:26:28 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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