{"id":1848732,"date":"2023-02-15T17:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848732"},"modified":"2023-02-15T17:21:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:21:34","slug":"mcconnell-explains-why-bidens-woke-standards-for-judicial-nominees-are-so-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-explains-why-bidens-woke-standards-for-judicial-nominees-are-so-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Explains Why Biden&#8217;s Woke Standards for Judicial Nominees Are So &#8216;Offensive&#8217;"},"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%2Fmcconnell-explains-why-bidens-woke-standards-for-judicial-nominees-are-so-offensive%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=1848732&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>Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R. Ky.) slammed Wednesday&#8217;s focus by President Joe Biden on the race\/gender of nominees for judicial office in some of his harshest words yet.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It\u2019s offensive to all Americans to have a president seeming to view our judiciary as some kind of crude sociological math problem,&#8221; McConnell spoke on the Senate floor. &#8220;This is just the kind of thing our Constitution cuts against.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">McConnell&#8217;s remarks were made after Biden, on Tuesday, celebrated the confirmation of Gina R. Mendez\u00adMiro as his 100th judicial nominee. Mendez\u00adMiro will now serve on the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals. Biden made it clear in a press statement that Mendez\u00adMiro will serve as the Puerto Rico Court Of Appeals&#8217; Judge. &#8220;be the first openly LGBTQI+ judge to serve on that court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">McConnell stated that it is not clear whether Mendez-Miro was a qualified choice, and accused Biden and his co-democrats of talking. &#8220;like the H.R. department at some liberal university.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Both the president and the Democratic leader focused their comments overwhelmingly on identity politics and demographic box-checking,&#8221; McConnell said. &#8220;The president\u2019s statement spent literally one part of one sentence paying lip service to the question of legal qualifications.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Biden\u2019s judicial nominees held fewer clerkships at the Supreme Court or appellate level than did those of former president Donald Trump, McConnell noted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Republicans have previously raised questions about the competence of some of Biden\u2019s judicial nominees, including Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-judicial-nominee-ridiculed-failing-recall-parts-constitution-hoo-boy-bad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/535ae1203d5f4b71df0952c2c9694f7d677eaa01?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.foxnews.com%252Fmedia%252Fbiden-judicial-nominee-ridiculed-failing-recall-parts-constitution-hoo-boy-bad%26userId%3D6348687%26signature%3D11365c4c636eac0e&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1676580662004000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1zkmiC8U914MyVqLCT_0Ll\">Couldn&#8217;t say<\/a> What Articles II or VI of the Constitution were used during her confirmation hearing last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court-likely-ban-affirmative-action-college-admissions-legal-experts-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/5fa0fbbb7b5f187308f3f8d2a062034007e26b87?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.foxnews.com%252Fpolitics%252Fsupreme-court-likely-ban-affirmative-action-college-admissions-legal-experts-say%26userId%3D6348687%26signature%3Dcee65aa479652787&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1676580662004000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0dHFJO4YcLo4YIyOyqdXIh\">considering challenges<\/a> McConnell reminded Biden about race-based college admissions and that affirmative action policies are still deeply unpopular among the public.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Do you know what share of Americans believe race or ethnicity should be a major factor in university admissions? Seven percent,&#8221; McConnell stated, citing a 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2022\/04\/26\/u-s-public-continues-to-view-grades-test-scores-as-top-factors-in-college-admissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/17765f3826f0d17ecd10f8cc81e0e3191ae87fae?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.pewresearch.org%252Ffact-tank%252F2022%252F04%252F26%252Fu-s-public-continues-to-view-grades-test-scores-as-top-factors-in-college-admissions%252F%26userId%3D6348687%26signature%3D445f8154af117a31&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1676580662004000&#038;usg=AOvVaw04mPw5N3puBgXBNHP4sLFr\">Pew Research Center poll<\/a>. &#8220;Do you know what percentage believe that gender should be a major factor in university admissions? Four percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Wednesday slammed President Joe Biden&#8217;s focus on the race and gender of judicial nominees in some of the harshest terms yet.<br \/>\nThe post McConnell Explains Why Biden&#8217;s Woke Standards for Judicial Nominees Are So &#8216;Offensive&#8217; appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":1848735,"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":[3706,4443,15650,5194,8163,8010,14565,5558],"class_list":["post-1848732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-bidens","tag-explains","tag-judicial","tag-mcconnell","tag-nominees","tag-offensive","tag-standards","tag-woke"],"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\/1848732","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}