Biden Judicial Nominee Can’t Answer Sen. Kennedy’s Questions About The Constitution

We’ve already got a Supreme Court Justice who can’t answer a simple question about the definition of “woman.” Now, we have a Biden judicial nominee who can’t answer a single one of Senator Kennedy’s questions about the constitution. First, he asks her what article five of the Constitution does (it talks about how to ratify amendments to the Constitution). She says it’s “not coming to mind at the moment.” Then he asks about article 2 (it establishes the executive branch of the government). She responds that this one also isn’t coming to mind at the moment.

Now, I couldn’t have told you what either of these articles address. Then again, I’ve never taken a single law-related class in my entire life, much less spent my entire career in law, nor have I been nominated by the President of the United States to be a federal judge. Is it unreasonable to expect that a federal judge at least be somewhat familiar with the 7 articles of the Constitution? Like even just a general understanding of the point of each one? There are only 7 and it’s the founding document of our entire nation and legal system. What scares me it that this sort of tips us off to how she feels about the Constitution, right? Clearly, it isn’t much of a priority to her. And that doesn’t bode well for our Constitutional Republic.

To her credit, she does a great job trying to turn this obvious and very public failure into self-promotion by detailing her professional resume and explaining that in 12 years as an AG and 9 years as a judge, she “was not faced with that precise question.”