{"id":1216548,"date":"2022-01-14T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T19:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216548"},"modified":"2022-01-14T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T19:04:52","slug":"black-female-judge-defends-gops-blackburn-from-naacps-racism-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-female-judge-defends-gops-blackburn-from-naacps-racism-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Female Judge Defends GOP\u2019s Blackburn From NAACP\u2019s Racism Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fblack-female-judge-defends-gops-blackburn-from-naacps-racism-charge%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=1216548&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/\">The Courts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Biden admin passed up judge for federal court seat<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2066.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1280073401_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1280073401_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1280073401_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tSen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 January 14, 2022 1:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Liberals attacked a Republican senator as racist for her opposition to a black man nominated to the federal court. But her opposition likely had nothing to do with race, given her pick for the judicial seat is a black woman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) in July recommended Camille McMullen, an accomplished black judge who has served on a Memphis bench since 2008, for a seat on the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Tennessee. Months later, the White House instead opted to nominate a Andre Mathis, a Memphis attorney who has not served as a judge in his career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Blackburn criticized the Biden administration for the pick, calling it &#8220;insulting&#8221; that the White House did not consult Tennessee senators prior to the nomination. She went on to oppose Mathis&#8217;s confirmation during a Wednesday Judiciary Committee hearing by expressing &#8220;serious concern&#8221; with his lack of experience and his criminal record\u2014the attorney drove on a suspended license on three different occasions following traffic violations that he failed to address.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Liberal media outlets used Blackburn&#8217;s remarks to portray the Republican as racist. Former NAACP president Cornell William Brooks, for example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnnnewsroom\/status\/1481457922475442183?s=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>appeared<\/span><\/a><span> on CNN to accuse her of &#8220;demeaning a black man.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Blackburn&#8217;s critics piled on, McMullen took to Facebook to defend the Republican and praise her support for &#8220;African-American women in the judiciary.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Tennessee. I feel the need to comment. I&#8217;m a judge. Not a politician. Whatever your politics may be, I thank Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty for submitting my name to the Biden administration,&#8221; McMullen said in a Wednesday <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=1290384091446447&amp;id=100014246042610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Facebook post<\/span><\/a><span>. &#8220;Senator Blackburn, many do not know, but I need to acknowledge publicly your appreciation of diversity in the judiciary, specifically African-American women in the judiciary. For this, I thank you.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McMullen also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CamilleMcMulle5\/status\/1481458110699122693?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>defended<\/span><\/a><span> Blackburn on Twitter, saying that while she is a &#8220;lifelong Democrat,&#8221; &#8220;we do not need to destroy the judicial branch.&#8221; A GOP Senate aide admonished media outlets for failing to cover McMullen&#8217;s praise of Blackburn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The alternative nominee put forth was a Democrat woman of color, but the establishment media does not care,&#8221; the aide said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mathis now awaits a committee vote to advance his nomination following Wednesday&#8217;s hearing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courts Biden admin passed up judge for federal court seat  Sen. 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