{"id":1392483,"date":"2022-03-21T16:44:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392483"},"modified":"2022-03-21T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:45:07","slug":"they-will-crush-you-sen-cruz-calls-out-democrats-for-their-explicitly-racial-filibustering-of-black-and-hispanic-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-will-crush-you-sen-cruz-calls-out-democrats-for-their-explicitly-racial-filibustering-of-black-and-hispanic-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Will Crush You\u2019: Sen. Cruz Calls Out Democrats For Their \u2018Explicitly Racial\u2019 Filibustering Of Black And Hispanic Nominees"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fthey-will-crush-you-sen-cruz-calls-out-democrats-for-their-explicitly-racial-filibustering-of-black-and-hispanic-nominees%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=1392483&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>Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called out Democrats for filibustering of black and Hispanic judicial nominees at Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s confirmation hearing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe senior Democrats in this committee happily filibustered Judge Janice Rogers Brown, the very qualified African American woman nominated to the D.C. Circuit,\u201d Cruz began. \u201cAnd they did so precisely because they wanted to prevent Judge Brown from becoming Justice Brown, the first African American woman. Joe Biden was among the Democrats the first African American woman nominated to the D.C. Circuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President George W. Bush nominated <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/11\/02\/gary-johnsons-supreme-court-picks-are-actually-alright-for-conservatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brown<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/10\/29\/neomi-rao-dc-circuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D.C. Circuit<\/a> in 2003 but was immediately met with opposition by Senate Democrats, who argued that her reported ideological stances were \u201cout of the legal mainstream,\u201d The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/02\/01\/biden-black-woman-janice-rogers-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. After two years, Brown was re-nominated and confirmed by a 56-43 vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The senator then pointed to Senate Democrats filibuster the nomination of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/03\/20\/dick-durbin-built-a-wall-for-estrada-and-gonzales-shoved-condi-rice-to-the-back-of-the-bus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miguel Estrada<\/a>, a Honduran immigrant nominated by Bush to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals. A memo to Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin called Estrada \u201cespecially dangerous\u201d because \u201che is Latino, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2003\/nov\/15\/20031115-121140-2918r\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Times.<\/a>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/30\/poll-majority-americans-biden-should-consider-all-possible-scotus-nominees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: POLL: Majority Of Americans Say Biden Should \u2018Consider All Possible\u2019 Supreme Court Nominees)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were explicitly racial, if you are Hispanic or African American and you dare depart from their political orthodoxy, they will crush you, they will attack you, they will slander you, they will filibuster you,\u201d Cruz continued. \u201cSo this is not about race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The memos found that staffers for former Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy recommended that a nomination for Tennessee Judge Julia S. Gibbons be stalled until two <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/26\/california-aca-proposition-overturn-affirmative-action-ban-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">affirmative action<\/a> cases connected to the University of Michigan be decided, according to the Washington Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thinking is that the current 6th Circuit will sustain the affirmative action program, but if a new judge with conservative views is confirmed before the case is decided, the new judge will be able, under 6th circuit rules, to review the case and vote on it,\u201d a staffer wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Estrada withdrew his nomination in September of 2003, in the aftermath of the Democrats\u2019 filibustering, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/09\/04\/estrada.withdraws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Democrats celebrated by saying they will block any nominee \u201cfar beyond the mainstream.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called out Democrats for filibustering of black and Hispanic judicial nominees at Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s confirmation hearing on Monday.\u201cThe senior Democrats in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"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-1392483","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\/1392483","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\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392483\/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=1392483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}