Ted Cruz: “Your current employer has labeled three members of this committee, myself, Senator Hawley and Senator Blackburn as white supremacists. Do you agree with that?”
Joe Biden’s circuit court nominee Nancy Abudu, selected for the 11th Circuit, was grilled by Republican senators on the panel over her connection with far left extremist groups.
Senators Chuck Grassley, Ben Sasse and Marsha Blackburn questioned ABudu over her job as the deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group known for far left extremism.
“There’ve been repeated examples of the center targeting mainstream conservative groups,” Grassley said.
Sasse pressed Abudu about the center’s accusing any group with Christian values as being hate groups.
Senator Ted Cruz said that the Southern Poverty Law Center was responsible for a 2012 shooting at the Family Research Council, a conservative group that her organization called a hate group.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hateful and extreme place and their hate, among other things, has led to horrific violence. You went to work for them knowing that their hate had led to this violence?”
Cruz continued,
“How could anyone who is not on the radical left, how could someone who is pro-life, how could someone who’s conservative, how can someone who’s religious, have any degree of confidence if they were to appear at a court with you as a judge? You’ve spent a lifetime working for groups that smear half this country as white supremacists and Klansmen.”
