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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I sure do hope he gets the demoncrap nomination for president.
why is he bullying a minority?
Oh, bad answer! Disregard for one’s sexuality in a mega-sin! How does one achieve true diversity if one is not aware of such things...?
Corey Booker is one pathetic dipshit, ain’t he?
The background of the current nominee:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neomi_Rao
Neomi Jehangir Rao (born March 22, 1973) is an American attorney, law professor, academic, and federal government official who currently serves as the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
President Trump has nominated her to be a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Before assuming her current role, Rao was an associate professor of law and the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.
Her research and teaching focused on constitutional and administrative law.
Rao was born to mother Zerin Rao and father Jehangir Narioshang Rao, both Parsi physicians from India, raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and was educated at Detroit Country Day School.
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 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.
After her clerkships, she practiced public international law and arbitration at British law firm Clifford Chance in London, United Kingdom. During the second term of the presidency of George W. Bush, Rao worked in the White House counsel’s office and as a staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Later, she became a professor at George Mason University School of Law (subsequently renamed the Antonin Scalia Law School, a change for which she advocated), where she received tenure in 2012. In 2015, she founded the Center for the Study of the Administrative State.
She is a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and the governing council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, where she co-chairs the section’s regulatory policy committee.
She is a member of the Federalist Society.
Amen to that! :^)
Seems like it would be against the law to question a prospective or even an existing employee about those things.
Anybody else on this thread who might know more than I do on the subject, want to weigh in on that point ? Thanks.
Booker is a really bad actor. His expressions and declarations are over the top.
“Senator, do you brand your non-hetero office staff with a scarlet “L” or scarlet “G” or scarlet “T” on their foreheads so you can count how many you have in your office or do you allow your employees the privacy to out themselves at their own discretion because not all non-heteros wish to be identified publicly?”
The answer means nothing. He will use his question as part of future campaign ads.
Spartacus is far too full of himself and what he perceives of his importance which is less than nothing other than showing the country what useless idiots RATs are, IMO.
I would have said, “Why? Are you asking for a date?”........................
“I take people as they come, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation. I treat people as individuals.”
Obviously racist comment. Obviously. ;0)
Right on! You nailed it.
The mensroom predator also has imaginary “friends” like Odungo...
His friends will come “fluttering” in as the campaigns progress....
Every time I see a picture of Corey Booker, I see the ‘Obama Anger Translator’ that used to have a skit on Youtube (and I think he was there for one of Obama’s farewell dinners)
She really loves brushing her hair..?
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