'Do You Think That We Are Aligned With The Devil?': Blackburn Grills Judicial Nominee Over Donations

6 months ago

At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) questioned Karla M. Campbell, nominee to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, about her support for a candidate who attacked Republican Senators on Twitter.

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00:00for the yes senator those who want to read him mr. chairman I yield thank you

00:07mr. chairman judge Lopez I appreciate your work on human trafficking I was so

00:15disappointed looking at your sentencing record is that you would go light on

00:21those criminals those of us who work in the human trafficking child abuse areas

00:26it is so disheartening to see judges who practice leniency on these criminals

00:36miss Campbell it's nice to meet you you and I have never met and senator Welch

00:41you in said the White House said we had interviewed her we've never met and no

00:47we did not interview her so we may want to correct the White House record on

00:53that miss Campbell have you ever been a judge no senator do you mind using your

01:00microphone and so you have no experience you have appellate law experience but no

01:09experience as a judge senator I have argued numerous times before okay but

01:15you have no experience as a judge I want to go back to the Tennessee Bar

01:20Association when your nomination was announced and by the way it was this

01:28was a deal that was worked out before the vacancy was ever announced we heard

01:33about it from plenty of people in Nashville that this is exactly what was

01:38going to happen that the deal was done and I'm sure you're probably aware of

01:43that weren't you aware of that senator I was not okay the Bar Association does

01:49your work for workers the dignity did you ask them to correct that since you

01:55said you never worked for them I have not asked them to correct that why did

01:59you not I wasn't aware that it said that oh so the tennis TBA law blog is sent

02:05out and you read it I assume you read it and did you note the inaccuracy and did

02:14you ask them to correct it did they issue a correction please respond

02:21senator I do not recall reading that blog you don't recall reading it so this

02:26still was so cooked that she didn't even look at what the TBA law blog had to say

02:32when the nomination was announced let's go to this support for Odessa Kelly and

02:39we've discussed that several times today you've never been able to say why

02:45you chose to support her and you were tagged in a Facebook post with her so

02:52there is a reason you chose to make your largest political contribution ever to

02:59Odessa Kelly and we have a list of tweets mr. chairman things that Odessa

03:08Kelly has said about this committee positions that she is taken so why would

03:15you choose to support Odessa Kelly when you knew what her opinions were because

03:24when people say things like that it's not only in a tweet we've got it on

03:29Facebook we have it in other instances so would you like to provide an answer

03:35on that senator Cruz asked you about that and you never could say why you

03:40supported or do you align with her politically do you agree with her do you

03:46think that we are aligned with the devil what would cause you to be right out

03:53there with your best political support and contribution for her senator as I

04:02said I'm not familiar with those statements I do not support so you never

04:08heard her indicate anything what did you think you were supporting what kind of

04:13agenda were you supporting when you supported her senator again I'm not

04:19familiar with those particular statements to the you have to have every

04:23every candidate has a political ideology why would you give that support for

04:30someone who has made such statements and let me ask you go back to the

04:39workers dignity that work that you've done do you agree with them on

04:46abolishing law for law enforcement abolishing ice senator I'm not familiar

04:53with those statements but I can categorically say to you that I

04:56disagree with those positions so you would not abolish ice okay the Tennessee

05:01immigrant and refugee rights coalition and we have discussed this and you're

05:07saying I want you to say this for the record so you are saying that they are

05:12lying when they say that you said you gave them advice and consent and help is

05:20that correct senator the the manifesto that was referenced I am not familiar

05:28with it so why would they think that they had depended on you for advice and

05:35why would they note this did you ask them about it did you say why are you

05:42referencing me and I had nothing to do with this did you talk to anyone senator

05:52until today I did not know that my name was listed in one of their publications

05:56you had no idea about that well do you agree with them and I'm pulling this

06:02from a Fox 17 news report TIRRC is calling on Metro police to develop clear

06:10policies and refuse to help ice carry out civil immigration enforcement in

06:16Davidson County do you agree with that statement senator I'm not familiar with

06:24that statement and no I don't agree with it you don't agree thank you

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