'This May Be A First!': Ted Cruz Confronts 'Radical' Biden Nominee With His Own Past Statements

thank you senator klobart club chair senator cruz thank you mr chairman in his first year in office president biden has made a pattern of nominating extreme partisans and radicals to serve in the administration but especially to serve on the bench and unfortunately that pattern continues today uh mr ho you will not be surprised that i want to address some questions to you and in my view your record reflects that same pattern of finding someone who has been an extreme partisan who has been a radical and president biden trying to put judicial robes on that partisan and radical agenda and i would note at the outset that that's not just my characterization you yourself have described yourself as quote a wild-eyed leftist and further as someone quote accuse sometimes of seeing discrimination everywhere you look is is that right uh senator cruz i think the key word in that quote is accused what i was let's start with the first one wild eyed sort of leftist well again senator cruz i think i was characterizing how others have caricatured myself okay well uh let's take a quote you wrote in in november 2017 and i found it amusing the exchange a moment ago with one of the democratic senators about oh some older intemperate statements i would note just sitting here this this may be a first in in that you have tweeted attacks at multiple members of this committee including senator lee senator cotton center blackburn senator cornyn and and far from being intemperate statements when you were a teenager and most of these tweets occurred last year so in the last 12 months uh you have engaged or the last about 18 months you have engaged in partisan attacks on multiple members of this committee but you also wrote in november 2017 quote in these dark times i've been fortunate to find tremendous sense of purpose in my work as a civil rights lawyer but as a colleague of mine asked me over lunch recently dale do you do this because you want to help people or because you hate conservatives what he was getting at is that anger can in fact be a tremendous source of power for me righteous indignation can provide a sense of moral clarity and motivate the long hours needed to get the work done but it's only a short-term burst it's not sustaining in the long run ho if you wake up in her judge ho and i recognize that new york is a blue state but imagine there is someone who considers himself or herself a conservative in the state of new york who god forbid finds themselves in a courtroom where you're wearing a robe what comfort do you think that litigant would have that you described the hatred of conservatives the righteous indignation the anger at conservatives as a tremendous source of power for you personally how does that possibly give anyone comfort that you would be a fair and impartial judge thank you senator cruz for giving me an opportunity to address this as i mentioned to some other members of the committee this was a comment that i made in church where i was relaying a joke that someone else had told the point of which was that that kind of temporary sugar rush from being angry at someone um while it can feel powerful in a moment it's not the kind of thing that is sustaining for a human being in the long run that at the end of the day if you want to do good work in the world it has to come from a different place a place of love for your fellow person um and that's what i was trying to convey to my fellow congregants at my church well that's not what you said and and what you said is you described hatred and righteous indignation directed at conservatives and i would note that that's a pattern that also continues you know a minute ago you talked about how you're dedicated to equality and i will say looking at your record that is not in fact the case your record instead is a partisan view so for example you are a graduate of the yale law school the yale law school has an open policy of discriminating against asian americans one of the first things that joe biden's justice department did was dismiss the investigation against yale because today's democratic party believes discriminating against asian americans in admissions is an acceptable form of bigotry do you agree with the bite administration on that um senator cruz i i haven't followed the ins and outs of what the biden administration has done um with respect to that particular matter what what i can tell you about you agree with your alma mater's policy of discriminating against asia asian americans in admissions well senator cruz i'm a member of the national asian pacific american bar association i try to do what i can um in the asian american legal community i'm not aware of a particular policy of discrimination and admissions at yale law school but i think to your larger question senator cruz i clerked for judges who were appointed by executives of different parties they set an example for me that politics you can have political views but they don't have a role on the bench and i would look to follow their examples well your record suggests precisely the contrary thank you chairman durbin um and thank you to all of today's nominees for your willingness to serve for your records of service and uh to your families for their support of your nominations here today um with um your forgiveness i hope uh i'm going to focus specifically on the nominee to be the head of the patent trademark office um you've had a number of questions from my colleagues i'm going to briefly address two or three things uh there's lots of other issues i could take up but i know that

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Published: Wed Dec 01 2021