{"id":1825503,"date":"2023-01-26T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T22:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825503"},"modified":"2023-01-26T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T22:37:19","slug":"biden-judicial-nominee-fails-to-explain-basics-of-constitution-during-confirmation-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-judicial-nominee-fails-to-explain-basics-of-constitution-during-confirmation-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Judicial Nominee Fails To Explain Basics of Constitution During Confirmation Hearing"},"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\">24<\/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-judicial-nominee-fails-to-explain-basics-of-constitution-during-confirmation-hearing%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=1825503&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-->\n<p>On Thursday, President Joe Biden&#8217;s nominee for a U.S. District Court judge failed to answer basic questions regarding the U.S. Constitution. This included the functions of the fifth and second articles.<\/p>\n<p>After Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.)\u00a0After Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.) grilled Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren about Biden&#8217;s nomination for the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Washington, the judge stated that those articles were not part of the Constitution. &#8220;not coming to mind at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Q: &#8216;Judge tell me, what does article V do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden judicial nominee: &#8216;Article V is not coming to mind at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How about article 2?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nominee: &#8216;Neither is Article II&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MvdLR3TDKZ\">pic.twitter.com\/MvdLR3TDKZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1618641351243096066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article II describes the structure of Executive Branch and Article V explains how to amend it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my 12 years as an assistant attorney general, and my 9 years serving as a judge, I was not faced with that precise question,&#8221; Kennedy asked Bjelkengren to define purposivism. This theory of constitutional interpretation in which a judge considers the intention of the legislature in order to understand the law&#8217;s purposes, is called the Theory of Purposivism.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy said Bjelkengren is &#8220;going to be faced with&#8221; These concepts are confirmed. &#8220;I can assure you of that,&#8221; He stated.<\/p>\n<p>Bjelkengren will appear before a committee vote in coming days. There have been no reports about a possible withdrawal. Matthew Petersen was appointed by Donald Trump to the federal court. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-judge\/trump-judicial-nominee-withdraws-from-consideration-idUSKBN1EC2G9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed to define<\/a> Several terms that were used in federal courts during his 2017 confirmation hearing were not considered by the nominee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had hoped that my nearly two decades of public service might carry more weight than my two worst minutes on television,&#8221; Petersen wrote to Trump in a note.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s hearing saw Sen. Patty Murray (D. Wash.) call for Bjelkengren\u2019s confirmation and called the judge an advocate. &#8220;exceptional nominee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Judge Bjelkengren has over two decades of experience serving the people of Washington State, working thoughtfully through tough legal questions that affect their daily lives,&#8221; Murray stated.<\/p>\n<p>Bjelkengren was added by the senator &#8220;reflects the diversity of this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jay Inslee, the Washington governor (D.), appointed Bjelkengren as the Spokane County Superior Court Judge in 2019. Her previous duties included assistant attorney general for Washington State.<\/p>\n<p>Bjelkengren was a student at Gonzaga University School of Law (Mankato State University) and Mankato State University. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afj.org\/document\/charnelle-bjelkengren-fact-sheet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received<\/a> A &#8220;diversity scholarship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s judicial nominee for a U.S. district court failed on Thursday to answer basic questions about the U.S. Constitution, including the functions of the second and fifth articles.<br \/>\nThe post Biden Judicial Nominee Fails To Explain Basics of Constitution During Confirmation Hearing appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1825506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[8790,3620,16629,8062,5197,8126,3679,15650,4904],"class_list":["post-1825503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-basics","tag-biden","tag-confirmation","tag-constitution","tag-explain","tag-fails","tag-hearing","tag-judicial","tag-nominee"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825503","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}