{"id":1073666,"date":"2021-12-01T17:14:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073666"},"modified":"2021-12-01T17:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:14:45","slug":"cruz-grills-biden-nominee-you-describe-hatred-and-righteous-indignation-directed-at-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-grills-biden-nominee-you-describe-hatred-and-righteous-indignation-directed-at-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz Grills Biden Nominee: \u2018You Describe Hatred And Righteous Indignation Directed At Conservatives\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcruz-grills-biden-nominee-you-describe-hatred-and-righteous-indignation-directed-at-conservatives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073666&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled Dale Ho, President Joe Biden\u2019s judicial nominee to serve on the Southern District of New York, during a Senate hearing on Wednesday over past remarks that he made regarding conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would note, just sitting here, this may be a first in that you have tweeted attacks at multiple members of this committee including Senator Lee, Senator Cotton, Senator Blackburn, Senator Cornyn, and far from being intemperate statements when you were a teenager, most of these tweets occurred last year,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cSo in the last 12 months, you have engaged\u2014or the last about 18 months\u2014you have engaged in partisan attacks on multiple members of this committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you also wrote in November 2017: \u2018In these dark times, I\u2019ve 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\u2019s only a short term burst. It\u2019s not sustaining in the long run,\u2019\u201d Cruz said. \u201cMr. Ho, if you wake up and are 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\u2019re 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?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ho claimed that his comment was \u201ca joke that someone else had told\u201d and that what he really meant was that a person had to be motivated from \u201ca place of love for your fellow person\u201d and that\u2019s what he was \u201ctrying to convey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, that\u2019s not what you said,\u201d Cruz fired back. \u201cWhat you said is you describe hatred and righteous indignation directed at conservatives, and I would note that that\u2019s a pattern that also continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ho is the director of the ACLU\u2019s Voting Rights Project.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Ted Cruz to Dale Ho, Biden judicial nominee, about him writing, \u201cAs a colleague of mine asked me over lunch recently, \u2018Dale, Do you do this because you want to help people or because you hate conservatives?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ho downplays his writings saying he made the comments in church. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mhgL1uXXee\">pic.twitter.com\/mhgL1uXXee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1466100714686529540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><em>SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): Well, let\u2019s take a quote you wrote in November 2017. I found it amusing the exchange a moment ago with one of the Democratic senators about \u2018oh, some older intemperate statements.\u2019 I would note, just sitting here, this may be a first in that you have tweeted attacks at multiple members of this committee including Senator Lee, Senator Cotton, Senator Blackburn, Senator Cornyn, and far from being intemperate statements when you were a teenager, most of these tweets occurred last year. So in the last 12 months, you have engaged\u2014or the last about 18 months\u2014you have engaged in partisan attacks on multiple members of this committee. But you also wrote in November 2017: \u2018In these dark times, I\u2019ve 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\u2019s only a short term burst. It\u2019s not sustaining in the long run.\u2019 Mr. Ho, if you wake up and are 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\u2019re 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?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DALE HO, BIDEN NOMINEE:&nbsp;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<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled Dale Ho, President Joe Biden\u2019s judicial nominee to serve on the Southern District of New York, during a Senate hearing on Wednesday over past remarks that he made regarding conservatives.\u201cI would note, just sitting here, this may be a first in that you have tweeted attacks at multiple members of this committee including Senator Lee, Senator Cotton, Senator Blackburn, Senator Cornyn, and far from being intemperate statements when you were a teenager, most of these tweets occurred last year,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cSo in the last 12 months, you have engaged\u2014or the last about 18 months\u2014you have engaged in partisan attacks on multiple members of this committee.\u201d\u201cBut you also wrote in November 2017: \u2018In these dark times, I\u2019ve 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\u2019s only a short term burst. It\u2019s not sustaining in the long run,\u2019\u201d Cruz said. \u201cMr. Ho, if you wake up and are 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\u2019re 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?\u201dHo claimed that his comment was \u201ca joke that someone else had told\u201d and that what he really meant was that a person had to be motivated from \u201ca place of love for your fellow person\u201d and that\u2019s what he was \u201ctrying to convey.\u201d\u201cWell, that\u2019s not what you said,\u201d Cruz fired back. \u201cWhat you said is you describe hatred and righteous indignation directed at conservatives, and I would note that that\u2019s a pattern that also continues.\u201dHo is the director of the ACLU\u2019s Voting Rights Project.WATCH:Sen. Ted Cruz to Dale Ho, Biden judicial nominee, about him writing, \u201cAs a colleague of mine asked me over lunch recently, \u2018Dale, Do you do this because you want to help people or because you hate conservatives?\u2019\u201dHo downplays his writings saying he made the comments in church. pic.twitter.com\/mhgL1uXXee\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) December 1, 2021TRANSCRIPT:SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): Well, let\u2019s take a quote you wrote in November 2017. I found it amusing the exchange a moment ago with one of the Democratic senators about \u2018oh, some older intemperate statements.\u2019 I would note, just sitting here, this may be a first in that you have tweeted attacks at multiple members of this committee including Senator Lee, Senator Cotton, Senator Blackburn, Senator Cornyn, and far from being intemperate statements when you were a teenager, most of these tweets occurred last year. So in the last 12 months, you have engaged\u2014or the last about 18 months\u2014you have engaged in partisan attacks on multiple members of this committee. But you also wrote in November 2017: \u2018In these dark times, I\u2019ve 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\u2019s only a short term burst. It\u2019s not sustaining in the long run.\u2019 Mr. Ho, if you wake up and are 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\u2019re 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?DALE HO, BIDEN NOMINEE:\u00a0Thank 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, while it can feel powerful in a moment, it\u2019s 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. And that\u2019s what I was trying to convey to my fellow congregants at my church.CRUZ:\u00a0Well, that\u2019s not what you said. What you said is you describe hatred and righteous indignation directed at conservatives, and I would note that that\u2019s a pattern that also continues.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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