Biden admin under fire for pursuing diversity over merit: They're finding people 'who aren't highly-skilled' | Fox News
By: Ashley Carnahan (Fox News)
Qualifications are so passe.........................
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President Biden has nominated a record number of diverse judges to the federal judiciary, with nearly 65% being people of color, according to an analysis by Balls & Strikes.
The outlet found that out of 97 confirmed federal judges, five are White men and 22 are Black women. Female judges make up 66% of the confirmations compared to 24% under former President Donald Trump and 42% under former President Obama.
Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper called out the Biden administration for its seemingly race-based confirmations Monday, arguing it is trying to replace excellence and merit with diversity.
"What we're seeing from the Biden administration, and which is what we're seeing generally from the progressive movement, is this idea that we just need to reshape the judiciary in a way under color," he said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
"I use that term in a duplicative way by pretending that we're making the courts look more like America. But the truth of the matter is we're finding people - they aren't talented, they aren't highly-skilled, but they know progressive vision just like the back of their hand."
Cooper added that America ultimately "suffers" because of this practice.
Host Tucker Carlson highlighted an exchange between Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., and Biden judicial nominee Charnelle Bjelkengren.
Bjelkengren could not answer Kennedy's questions about what different parts of the U.S. Constitution do, saying certain articles were not "coming to mind."
Carlson said the response was "unbelievably degrading" and wondered why Biden nominated a judge who "knew nothing" about the Constitution.
Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren of the Spokane County Superior Court in Eastern Washington. (Fox News)
Cooper agreed, adding he does not want people to be hired to prestigious positions only on the basis of race.
"I don't want the cardiologist to be chosen by his color. I don't want the pilot to be chosen by his race. And I don't want the judiciary to be chosen that way," he explained. "We need excellence. And this administration doesn't want that criticism."
Ashley Carnahan is a production assistant at Fox News Digital.
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Who needs credentials when we can have virtue signal check boxes...................
Trump and supporters are off topic in any way, shape, or form.
Again, anything from Faux 'news' needs to be taken for what it is worth, which is absolutely zero, zip, zilch, diddly squat, nada
So do you have a problem with diversity/equality in government? They don't have credentials?
What does virtue signaling even mean? Do you know?
I mean in the Justice Department?
Who says they don't have the credentials to do the 'job'?
So, this 'article' was penned by a production assistant from Faux 'news' digital.
Where are her credentials?
It seems to get even worse with this one...
Never even appeared in federal court? How the fuck can she be considered for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench when she has zero experience at the federal court level? This really takes diversity far beyond any logical point.
That is because diversity solely for diversity's sake is illogical.
Very true, but it is more than highly acceptable to many on the liberal left of today! It just does not matter any more today on how knowledgeable one is about their chosen field as long as you can fill in the blanks on a job application. So totally disgusting!
Seemed to be a common complaint during the last Administration with mostly partisan objections to the lack of both diversity and real legal experience, now resulting in real crackpot decisions by certain Appeals Judges.
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Physics?
Every action has a logical and equal reaction?
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Several of the previous Administration's judicial nominees had never tried a case, taken a deposition, examined a witness, or argued a motion in court. In other words, they had absolutely no experience that would qualify them for any judgeship much less a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. What they did have was an extremist right wing political philosophy and the backing of the ultra-reactionary Federalist Society. I don't recall seeing NT's so-called "conservatives" registering an objection to any of those completely unqualified nominees.
Bjelkengren could not answer Kennedy's questions about what different parts of the U.S. Constitution do, saying certain articles were not "coming to mind."
Seeing Senator Murray promote and defend her on the basis of her skin color is pretty sickening. That's apparently her only qualification.
"A champion of liberty, Tocqueville was no determinist. He nevertheless understood that once particular habits become widespread in elite and popular culture, the consequences are difficult to avoid. In the case of democracy—perhaps especially American democracy—Tocqueville wondered whether its emphasis on equality might not eventually make the whole thing come undone."
Just one more flawed policy brought to you by goober and his Bidenettes.
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No, he would be quite jealous of today's gop/gqp/whackjobs/RWNJs.
No hitler openly admired the jim crow segregation laws of the southern democrats. The new style DEI programs the democrats now champion are far more subtle but very effective. Much more palatable for the average person to disguise it as inclusive instead of exclusive. Democrats have always loved them some race based policies
“No hitler openly admired the jim crow segregation laws of the southern democrats…”
No, he had long since put a bullet in his head, realizing the end had come.
A rather lazy analogy.
Not true at all.
A little history is in order:
Jim Crow Laws: Definition, Facts & Timeline - HISTORY
That may come from not knowing much history of Jim Crow, as evidenced in your comment.
It's why democrats like to erase history so much. Makes it easier to re package it and repeat it.
True, the Biden administration is less white, less evangelical and less binary than the gop wants!
Under fire from whom? The gopass magahats?
And most importantly, less competent.
“And most importantly, less competent. “
So more white, more evangelical, and more discriminatory is the plan…
….let’s just hope you are wrong and that we can move passed the biases that would rather divide than accept our differences and somehow coalesce, making this a much better place.
The 'plan' is for competency.
That may sound foreign to Bidenistas.
Anybody who thinks the color of a persons skin is relevant for any job, other than casting an actor to play a historical figure is a racist by definition.
do you think only white evangelical judges are capable of understanding the structure of the constitution? Or white Evangelical press secretaries are able to speak in complete sentences when answering from the press?
Funny you immediately associate white evangelicals with competence.
People who have white guilty crack me up.
Woke dumbasses!