“These aren’t controversial or in question - they’re facts.
Oh hey, it's another Trump judicial nominee who won't say who won the 2020 election.
-Statement from Demand Justice President Josh Orton on Today's Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
"The White House has a new script. It knows that peddling the Big Lie is a political loser. So it’s now directing its judicial nominees to use bizarre qualifiers like “by law” Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
Calling those issues a “political controversy” is not independence, it's blind loyalty to President Trump.
The 2020 election results are not a political controversy to anyone except Trump. It's why @blumenthal.senate.gov called out Trump’s judicial nominee, Judge Traynor, for refusing to say who won. If they cannot tell the truth, they have no reason to be confirmed to these seats of power.
“Joe Biden won the 2020 election. He beat Donald Trump. January 6th was an insurrection and an attack on the Capitol. That’s it.
“If a judicial nominee can’t say those facts - outright - they can’t be independent from Trump. They should not have blue-slips returned on their behalf by Senate Democrats for their nominations. And they should absolutely not be given lifetime seats on the federal judiciary.”
The First Amendment protects free expression. If it protects the right to criticize a university on a political matter, it certainly protects answering a factual question about who won the 2020 election or what happened on January 6.
