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Ted Cruz Destroys Biden Judicial Nominee: “She couldn’t even answer a simple question,” [WATCH VIDEO ]
Republic Brief ^ | 02/03/2022 | Kari Donovan

Posted on 02/03/2022 6:11:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) showed how fragile Democrat Joe Biden’s Judicial nominees really are with an embarrassing exchange between Cruz and Biden’s pick to rule over landmark legal cases. A video snippet of the smackdown made some great political theater- and, more importantly, really shows the viewing public the left’s agenda to promote radical activist judges to dismantle the civil liberties of American citizens.

“She couldn’t even answer a simple question,” filmmaker and political pundit Dinesh D’Souza said about the video clip he posted of the Cruz wreckage.

On Tuesday at a Senate hearing, Cruz asked radical nominee Kenly Kiya Kato about her past writings, where she justified racial discrimination in the college admissions process.

Cruz said that he saw her writings “to be sufficiently woke, an Asian American must support policies that discriminate against Asian Americans.”

Cruz noted Harvard, her alma mater, was facing a lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court alleging it discriminated against Asian-American undergraduate applicants through race-conscious admissions processes aimed at boosting campus diversity.

“Does that practice concern you?” Cruz asked.

Kato declined to discuss the case, a challenge to affirmative action on college campuses, noting it is pending.

Kato would be the first Japanese-American federal judge in Los Angeles.

The writings that concerned Cruz included a book review which she co-wrote as a law student, where she said that neo-conservative Asian-Americans internalize “the dialogue of oppressors.

Kato did to Cruz what Democrats do and tried to marginalize her past behavior by saying she “wrote that years ago”. Cruz, unwilling to let go of the idea that Kato had exposed her true beliefs, asked her if she still held those same beliefs today, Kato squirmed and deflected- and did her best to avoid answering the question.

Cruz interrupted her, giving her an opportunity to regain her composure, and when she continued her rambling got so bad that Cruz had to literally ask her if she had prepared for the hearing.

“Did You Not Prepare for This Hearing?’ Cruz asked in frustration.

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Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California said Kato “would be an asset” if confirmed to be the first Japanese-American woman to serve in the Central District of California.

Kato told the panel that she was driven to the law by hearing about her parents’ experience as children being detained in internment camps along with some 120,000 other Japanese Americans during World War II.

Reuters reported on the hearing:

“Hearing those stories of my family’s first-hand experiences impressed upon me from a very young age the critical importance of securing our constitutional rights for everyone,” she said.

The discussion shifted to her views on affirmative action after Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa asked about a book review she co-wrote when she was a 23-year-old Harvard Law School student.

The 1995 article said neo-conservative Asian Americans “internalize the dialogue of oppressors, believing in the values of the status quo and condemning the activism of their group,” a statement Grassley asked if she still believed.

Kato said she “had no recollection of what we were trying to convey.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: judge; kenlykiyakato; nominee; tedcruz
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1 posted on 02/03/2022 6:11:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this the same teddy cruz who called patriot protestors terrorists?


2 posted on 02/03/2022 6:14:21 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: joma89

Yeah, it’s going to take him awhile to love that stupid comment down.


3 posted on 02/03/2022 6:17:21 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SeekAndFind

Flimsey Grahamnesty will vote to confirm anyway.


4 posted on 02/03/2022 6:17:34 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: joma89

RE: Is this the same teddy cruz who called patriot protestors terrorists?

Please stay on topic. We can always bash Cruz in another thread. For now, we’re fighting a common enemy that should not even be on our higher courts.


5 posted on 02/03/2022 6:18:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

In the great melting pot which is the USA, immigrants should arrive here ready, willing, and able to assimilate.

Saying that to assimilate is to “internalize the dialogue of oppressors, believing in the values of the status quo” merely outs a speaker as anti-American.


6 posted on 02/03/2022 6:18:58 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: joma89

Ted says he ‘mispoke’ about that topic.
Ted is very articulate and has a reputation of saying exactly what he thinks, but ever brain blows a fuse once in a while, I suppose.


7 posted on 02/03/2022 6:19:43 PM PST by lee martell
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To: SoConPubbie

He didn’t shoot himself in the foot with a .22, he used a shotgun.


8 posted on 02/03/2022 6:20:46 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind
Please stay on topic. We can always bash Cruz in another thread. For now, we’re fighting a common enemy that should not even be on our higher courts.

Thank you!

9 posted on 02/03/2022 6:21:24 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: SeekAndFind

get the gal a hair clip.


10 posted on 02/03/2022 6:23:11 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: SeekAndFind

Linda Graham can’t wait to vote for her.


11 posted on 02/03/2022 6:24:35 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: joma89

FTR- Cruz said there were terrorists at the J6 riots.. which was TRUE- BLM and Antifa terrorists.


12 posted on 02/03/2022 6:25:14 PM PST by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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To: SeekAndFind
“Hearing those stories of my family’s first-hand experiences impressed upon me from a very young age the critical importance of securing our constitutional rights for everyone,” she said.

And policies that discriminate against certain racial groups (e.g., against Americans of Asian ancestry in admissions to universities) accomplishes this exactly how?

13 posted on 02/03/2022 6:26:07 PM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: SeekAndFind

I agree.

When Cruz screws up we should hammer him.

However, when Cruz does a good thing we should acknowledge it & give him credit.


14 posted on 02/03/2022 6:27:35 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: SeekAndFind

Please stay on topic. We can always bash Cruz in another thread. For now, we’re fighting a common enemy that should not even be on our higher courts.

the Cruz hate here is strong.

after all he is Canadian /s


15 posted on 02/03/2022 6:27:54 PM PST by mylife (Doreen caught me and Tish nekkid drinkin peach schnapps.... but she never squealed)
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden nominating K.K.K. shows his true and very racist attitude.


16 posted on 02/03/2022 6:33:12 PM PST by captain_dave
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To: SeekAndFind

He should have asked her how she feels about discrimination against Whites. Nope. Pandering.

We’re useless and our sons useless unless they need them to fight in the Infantry for global wars.

I won’t be voting for any of them till they grow a set.


17 posted on 02/03/2022 6:34:05 PM PST by sumuam
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To: SeekAndFind

One commie is going to replace another. The rest is Kubuki Theater.


18 posted on 02/03/2022 6:35:04 PM PST by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy America has ever had. 🍊)
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To: SeekAndFind

19 posted on 02/03/2022 7:15:04 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: SeekAndFind

That woman should never be allowed to sit on any bench other than one in a park, and then only if it has gum, bird poop, and a sleeping vagrant on it.


20 posted on 02/03/2022 7:16:15 PM PST by centermass_socrates (Look into a conservative and see hope and virtue, look in a liberal and you only see meat.)
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