{"id":161685,"date":"2021-02-22T19:34:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T00:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=161685"},"modified":"2021-02-22T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T00:59:10","slug":"mike-lee-garland-wouldnt-condemn-radical-positions-of-other-doj-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-lee-garland-wouldnt-condemn-radical-positions-of-other-doj-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Lee: Garland Wouldn\u2019t Condemn Radical Positions Of Other DOJ 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\">22<\/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%2Fmike-lee-garland-wouldnt-condemn-radical-positions-of-other-doj-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=161685&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lee-Garland-1200x720-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, questioned by Utah GOP senator Mike Lee at his confirmation before the Senate Judiciary Committee to become the Attorney General of the United States, Judge Merrick Garland refused to condemn positions Lee alleged had been taken by Vanita Gupta, who has been nominated to be Associate Attorney General, as well as Kristen Clarke, who has been nominated to serve as Assistant Attorney General for civil rights.<\/p>\n<div id>\n<p><em>Lee: I\u2019m going to start with some questions that can be yes or no; if they require more than that you can say yes with this or that minor caveat but I\u2019d prefer a yes or no if you can provide one of these. Do you believe individuals who advocate for the rights of unborn human beings are rendered unfit for public office by virtue of having engaged in such advocacy?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Garland: No.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lee: Do you believe that efforts to purge voter rolls of individuals who have either died or have left the state in question or to require voter identification are racially discriminatory and an assault on voting rights?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Garland: This one is one I can\u2019t answer yes or no because you\u2019re asking about motivations of individuals, some of whom may have discriminatory purpose and some of whom have no discriminatory purpose.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lee: Okay. Okay, I think that answers my question there because I guess what I\u2019m asking is does an individual without knowing more than that, is there anything about those comments or support for those positions that in and of themselves would make that person a racist or an assault on voting rights?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Garland: Again, there\u2019s nothing about the comment itself but there\u2019s such a thing as circumstantial evidence obviously and if there\u2019s enormously disparate impact of things that somebody continues to propose, it\u2019s not unreasonable to draw conclusions from that. The mere fact of the statement, no.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lee: Do you believe Republicans in the United States, and by Republicans I mean as a whole, are determined to leave our communities to the mercy of people and institutions driven by hate, bigotry and fear of any threat to the status quo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Garland: I don\u2019t make generalizations about members of political parties; I would never do that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lee: I appreciate that and wouldn\u2019t expect otherwise. The reason I raise these ones is these are questions that have been drawn from comments made by Vanita Gupta, who\u2019s been nominated to be the associate attorney general, has advocated for each of these positions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Garland: Well, Senator, I know Vanita Gupta now quite well; I didn\u2019t know her before, but since the nomination, I\u2019ve gotten a chance to talk with her and speak with her. I have to tell you, I regard her as a person of great integrity and a person who is dedicated to the mission of the department and particularly equal justice under law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lee: I\u2019m not asking you to weigh in on her as a person; I\u2019m just talking about the comments. Let\u2019s move on. Would an individual\u2019s past statements, statements in the past, as an adult, declaring that one racial group is superior to another, would statements like that be relevant to an evaluation of whether such a person should be put in charge of running the Department of Justice\u2019s Civil Rights division?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Garland: Well, Senator, I read in the last few days these allegations about Kristen Clarke, who I\u2019ve also gotten to know, who I also trust, who I believe is a person of integrity, \u00a0whose views of the Civil Rights division I have discussed with her, and they are in line with my own. I have every reason to want her; she is an experienced former line prosecutor of hate crimes and we need somebody like that to be running the \u00a0\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lee: I\u2019m asking about the statement; I\u2019m not asking about her as a person; I\u2019m asking about the statement. In the abstract, would someone who has made that comment, would that comment itself be relevant to the question whether that person, having made that statement, should be put in charge of running the Civil Rights division?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Garland: All I can tell you is I\u2019ve had many conversations with her about her views about the Civil Rights division and what kind of matter she would investigate<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lee: What about anti-Semitic comments, would those be relevant to someone wanting to run the Civil Rights division?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Garland; You know my views about anti-Semitism; no one needs to question those.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lee: I\u2019m not questioning your\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Garland: I know you\u2019re not, but I want you to know I\u2019m a pretty good judge of what an anti-Semite is, and I do not believe that she is an anti-Semite and I do not believe she is discriminatory in any sense.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lee: Tell me this: Judge, you are a man of integrity and one who honors and respects the laws. What assurances can you give us, as one who has been nominated to serve as the Attorney General of the United States, that you, as confirmed as Attorney General of the United States, what assurances can you give Americans who are Republican, who are pro-life, who are religious people who are members of certain minority groups, in short, half, or more than half of the country, telling them that the U.S. Department of Justice, if you\u2019re confirmed, will protect them if Department of Justice leaders have condoned radical positions like those ones that I\u2019ve described?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Garland: I\u2019ll say it again: I don\u2019t believe that either Vanita or Kristen condone those positions and I have complete faith in them, but we are a leadership team, along with Alisa Monaco that will run the Department, and the final decision is mine. The buck stops with me, as harry Truman said, I will assure the people you\u2019re talking about I am a strong believer in religious liberty and there will no be any discrimination under my watch.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>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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