Sen. Kennedy Takes Apart Another ‘Embarrassing’ Biden Nominee – Opinion

Joe Biden suggested some troubling nominations.

One, Saule Omarova, had to withdraw herself from consideration after it became clear that she didn’t have the votes from moderate Democrats or the Republicans — because she was so radical — that her nomination was doomed. Listen to some of these positions and watch the Senate John Kennedy’s grilling of her.

Anne Traum, a Biden nominee to be a United States District Court Judge in the District of Nevada, was heard this week. Sen. Kennedy was again probing the nominee to find out how radical she was. She refused to answer the simple question, “Do you believe we should forgive a crime in the name social justice?”

Now, it would seem the obvious answer to that would be no, but she just couldn’t bring herself to say it, likely because the answer for her wouldn’t be a no.

Kennedy asked her the question nine times — and she kept ducking it.

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“Senator, thank you for that question. Recognizing that every issue of crime and all response to it is fundamentally a policy matter, I am able to say this. So, those are important issues, they are important for our community and our nation, but I leave those policy issues to the policymakers if confirmed as a judge I would not be a policy maker,” Traum responded the first time she was asked.

“I’m not asking your opinion as a judge,” Kennedy cut her off to point out. “I’m asking your opinion as a person, as a law professor. I’ll stipulate, with all of you, that you’re all going to be fair and unbiased. Now, do you think misbehavior and illegal acts should be forgiven in the name of social justice?” [….]

Kennedy reminded Traum at another point of the questioning that “If confirmed you’re going to be a federal judge. My friend Sen. Durbin agrees that judicial temperament matters. Being objective seems even more crucial. And I find it incredible that you won’t answer my question.”

When asked yet another time, Traum attempted to respond with “So the outcome of any case is always highly individualized based on the process and the facts of that case.”

She didn’t say no to the question.

So finally, Kennedy said, “What’s your favorite color?” She laughed and confessed it was blue. Kennedy then celebrated, saying he was “one for about 20” in getting any kind of an answer out of her.

But then he delivered the coup de grace to Traum in his classic fashion, saying he couldn’t vote for her if she wouldn’t answer, and that her responses were “embarrassing.”

Kennedy’s brilliant effort is admirable. They’re all on notice of the problem, if Traum can’t even honestly answer that basic question. That’s probably a good basic question for all the Biden nominees and if they can’t answer it, they shouldn’t get the votes.

The answer is that while there may be individual mitigating factors in any given case, politics should never be a factor in judging a criminal case, so one should never say ‘yes’ to that question. This is what the Biden campaign is proposing. That’s how radical they are at this point.