Newly resurfaced footage from 2021 reveals controversial statements by U.S. District Judge John McConnell, who recently blocked President Donald Trump’s spending freeze. U.S. District Judge John McConnell, an Obama appointee who recently blocked President Donald Trump’s efforts to freeze federal spending, is facing renewed scrutiny following the resurfacing of a 2021 video interview where he described racism as a “white people problem” and called for diversity-focused reforms in the judiciary. In the interview, published on Helen Cooke’s YouTube channel and uncovered by Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannon’s War Room, McConnell advocated for identity-based sentencing considerations and criticized the lack...