{"id":1122885,"date":"2021-12-15T19:43:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T00:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1122885"},"modified":"2021-12-15T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T00:43:39","slug":"biden-nominee-dale-ho-called-electoral-college-us-senate-anti-democratic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-nominee-dale-ho-called-electoral-college-us-senate-anti-democratic\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Nominee Dale Ho Called Electoral College, US Senate \u2018Anti-Democratic\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\">20<\/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%2Fbiden-nominee-dale-ho-called-electoral-college-us-senate-anti-democratic%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=1122885&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>One of President Joe Biden\u2019s judicial nominees referred to the U.S. Senate and the Electoral College as \u201canti-democratic\u201d institutions in a 2018 video that resurfaced on social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/18\/us-supreme-court-illegal-immigrant-census\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dale Ho<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/14\/cnn-democrat-candidates-2024-presidential-election-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden\u2019s<\/a> nominee for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, said the U.S. Senate and the Electoral College are \u201canti-democratic\u201d institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ought to be making voting easier. That\u2019s not to say that we didn\u2019t have controversies about voting rights, of course, we did,\u201d Ho said at the 2018 National Civic Leadership Training Summit in a YouTube video posted by The Andrew Goodman Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had lots of disagreements about what voting should look like, what registration should look like, we had lots of longstanding barriers \u2014 felon disenfranchisement \u2014 the practice of stripping the right to vote from people because of a criminal conviction,\u201d Ho said.<\/p>\n<p>He then claimed the U.S. \u201cobviously [has] lots of practices that are anti-democratic, that entrench in some ways minority rule in this country, and I\u2019m talking about things like, you know, the Senate, the Electoral College, and the maldistribution of political power that results from those institutions.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/01\/ted-cruz-joe-biden-us-disrtrict-court-nominee-dale-ho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Wild-Eyed Leftist\u2019: Ted Cruz Rattles Biden Nominee Over His Past Statements)<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Voting Rights Landscape\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p0mTWjPomyQ?start=338&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ho was scrutinized in early December when he compared voter ID laws to chemotherapy, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dale-ho-voter-id-laws-chemotherapy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always have to weigh the costs against the methods, so let me talk about for a second about what you asked \u2014 that question about does this enhance the integrity of our elections, right? Obviously, we all believe that election integrity is important,\u201d Ho said at a 2015 American Civil Liberties Union event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, all of us are against voter fraud, right? The question that I think we have to ask ourselves is whether or not the mechanism that we\u2019re using to try to prevent this problem is appropriate to the task. I\u2019m against cancer, but I don\u2019t think everyone in this room should get chemotherapy,\u201d Ho continued.<\/p>\n<p>Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/18\/ted-cruz-critical-race-theory-racist-klansmen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sen. Ted Cruz<\/a> of Texas recently slammed Ho during a Senate Judiciary Committee, saying the judicial nominee previously identified \u201cas a wild-eyed leftist,\u201d according to the outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of President Joe Biden\u2019s judicial nominees referred to the U.S. Senate and the Electoral College as \u201canti-democratic\u201d institutions in a 2018 video that resurfaced on social media.Dale Ho, Biden\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}