Senator Hawley Brutally Obliterates Joe Biden’s Latest Judicial Nominee

Red Voice Media Published April 27, 2022

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Senator Hawley Brutally Obliterates Joe Biden’s Latest Judicial Nominee [VIDEO]
"I can’t believe you’ve been nominated for this position"

By Zach Heilman
April 27, 2022

On top of nominating the first African American woman to the Supreme Court, Joe Biden promised to bring more diversity into D.C. and his own administration. Trying to keep to that promise, the President recently nominated Nancy Abudu to hopefully serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. But before Abudu could be confirmed, she was questioned by Republican Senator Josh Hawley about her time at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In the video, which is featured below, Senator Hawley criticized the nominee’s time there, stating, “2019 was the year the SPLC paid $3.4 million in response to defamation lawsuits. 2019 was the year Charity Watch gave your organization an F-rating. The SPLC has been labeled by the left-wing policy journal, Current Affairs, as ‘an outright fraud that uses deception designed to scare liberals into writing checks’. The progressive journalist Alexander Cockburn said this about SPLC, ‘I regard it, the Southern Poverty Law Center, collectively as one of the greatest frauds in American life’”.

The Senator did not stop there, adding, “Liberal death penalty abolitionist Stephen Bright refused to accept an award named after the founder of the SPLC, saying in his words, ‘The SPLC has long been run by a conman and a fraud.’ Also in 2019, SPLC employees told the press, ‘We’re part of a con and we knew it.’ That’s in a New Yorker article, not a right wing journal. Are you concerned by any of these record of the organization that you work for?”

Not all that shocking, Abudu tried to deflect the question, but again, Hawley was right there, reiterating, “Are you concerned Charity Watch gave you an F — that you had to pay 3.4 million dollars in response to defamation lawsuits, that you’re organization has been criticized as a fraud and a con job, and that you work for an organization that says ‘it’s their goal in life to completely destroy their opponents?’”

Biden’s nominee only responded, “My work with the Southern Poverty Law Center is to uphold the Constitutional rights of individuals, who without pro-bono counsel, would not be able to have access to justice.”

Having seen enough, Hawley concluded, “I have to tell you: I find your answers absolutely extraordinary. I can’t believe you’ve been nominated for this position. I can’t believe that the President of the United States would nominate someone from this organization, with this record. And I can’t believe that you would sit here today and refuse to condemn this hateful, frankly violent, rhetoric from this organization with this record. It’s astounding to me.”