Source: United States Senator for Kentucky Mitch McConnell
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding nominations:
“The Biden Administration has been sending the Senate a dizzying list of radical and unqualified nominees to both the executive branch and the federal bench.
“In several cases, the President’s picks have been so far outside the mainstream that this chamber’s Democrat majority hasn’t even been willing to confirm them.
“Right now, our Democratic colleagues are struggling to convince one another to confirm a state employment commissioner who was responsible for tens of billions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment insurance payments to become the Biden Administration’s Secretary of Labor.
“They’ve had a hard time agreeing to give a lifetime judgeship to a self-described ‘wild-eyed leftist’ who likened hate for conservative Americans to ‘righteous indignation’ and ‘moral clarity’.
“And all the while, the docket of downright radical nominees continues to fill. This week, the Democratic Leader filed cloture on two new nominations to the federal bench:
“First, Nusrat Choudhury is President Biden’s latest pick to join the Eastern District of New York.
“This nominee has made statements ranging from reckless suggestions that crimes like theft do not threaten public safety to false and inflammatory assertions that police kill black men ‘every day’ in America.
“Unsurprisingly, these statements have drawn the ire and opposition of law enforcement groups across the country.
“And second, Julie Rikelman is nominated to the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Rikelman has described efforts to limit abortion as a ‘vicious assault’ by ‘hostile politicians’, and has even objected to restrictions on reprehensible practices like sex-selective abortions.
“Mr. President, these are the nominees of a President who promised to unify our country. I would urge my colleagues to join me in rejecting each of them.”
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