Ashley Baker of Committee for Justice has this op-ed on the ugly politics behind the opposition to the nomination of Naomi Rao for USCA-DC.
The women's movement was on display at this week's State of the Union address .... One would expect that these same Democratic women would be similarly excited that a woman has been nominated for Kavanaugh's now empty seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
But just the opposite was true when the Senate Judiciary Committee met Tuesday to hear from Neomi Rao, the D.C. Circuit nominee. I'd like to say I was surprised but Rao is a conservative and, on the Hill, the #MeToo movement is about partisan politics rather than about women.* * *An irony of Democrats' judicial confirmation politics is that their efforts to thwart nominations deliberately and disproportionately impact stellar minority and female nominees. Just ask Miguel Estrada or Janice Rogers Brown.
Rao Has Criticized Multiculturalism & Wrote That it is
‘Undermining American Culture’
~ https://heavy.com/news/2019/01/neomi-rao/
In light of the uncritical acceptance of unfettered immigration of illegitimate
'refugees' by much of 1 of the 2 major political parties, Rao’s writings
strike me as timely as well as cogent and reasonable.
'No Wall' Rhetoric:
“[O’Rourke] compares the accelerated rejection of [immigrants] at the border in recent months to the infamous “ship of the damned” incident. Jews fleeing the
Nazis were forced to return to Europe. Most were killed in the Holocaust.”
----- ----- “A candidate for the highest office in the land…described
Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals.” [“Beto” O’Rourke]
----- ----- “We want to give immigrants the right to vote”
[Norman Yee, a San Fran. Cnty. Supervisor]
Criminal Realities:
Immigrants with past criminal convictions or pending ones accounted for 87%
of all arrests made by ICE in FY2018.
---- ---- “By far, the largest percentage of aliens arrested by ICE are convicted
criminals (66%), followed by immigration violators with pending criminal
charges at the time of their arrest (21%).
In FY2018, ERO arrested 138,117 aliens with criminal histories.” ~ eroFY2018Report.pdf
---- ---- ‘Since 2013 … 1,740 illegal aliens have been charged with more than
7,900 child rape/child sexual assaults'…
---- ---- "NCFIRE’s report found 17 illegal aliens were charged with 171 acts
of child rape and/or sexual assault in January".
~ https://www.libertyheadlines.com/illegal-aliens-north-carolina-rape/
~ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018-elections/2018/08/11/far-apart-immigration-ted-cruz-beto-orourke-use-issue-woo-voters
~ https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/illegal-immigration-
democrats-open-borders/