Trump judicial nominee Lawrence VanDyke is an originalist and said in a hearing Wednesday that he would “look to the Constitution” when considering whether laws were constitutional. This apparently set off alarm bells for Sen. Mazie Hirono, who seemed to assume that as an originalist, VanDyke would only look to the Constitution before it was amended.
Mazie Hirono coming in hot with possibly the dumbest gotcha I've ever heard https://t.co/5uRhYrdI9b pic.twitter.com/uh4SLztH0b
— Halloween Name Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) October 30, 2019
That’s some gotcha. Alex Griswold reports in the Washington Free Beacon:
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D., Hawaii) attacked a judicial nominee Wednesday, charging that he would rule against suffrage for blacks and women if a hypothetical U.S. Constitution banned them from voting.
Hirono took issue with Trump judicial nominee Lawrence VanDyke’s statement that he would “look to the Constitution” when considering whether laws were constitutional. She said during a Judiciary Committee hearing such an approach would threaten the voting rights of minorities and women if the Constitution had not already been changed to ensure voting rights for minorities and women.
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… “the point I’m making, of course, which you’re trying to get around, is that originalism means that you would interpret Constitution at the time of its enactment, and you would not allow women and blacks to vote because that was not in the Constitution when it was ratified in 1789,” Hirono said.
We saw flashes of this too in the Gorsuch opposition: "he ruled for megacorporations /against an autistic kid!" was a great knock, if you're acting under the assumption that judges are just supposed to side with the most sympathetic character.
— Halloween Name Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) October 30, 2019
She is the least competent person in the Senate, and it isn’t particularly close. https://t.co/JI45rKEWgh
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) October 31, 2019
Hirono continues to be the most insufferable Democrat in the House. Her determination to be the worst will not be denied.
— Scary Scum CLA (@ConservativeLA) October 30, 2019
She's the sort of consistently idiotic and puerile politician that you find yourself praying she's not in a relationship, because you feel bad in advance for anyone who is forced to deal with her on a daily basis.
— Scary Scum CLA (@ConservativeLA) October 30, 2019
Let's be frank, Hirono is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
— Shot, No Chaser (@ShotNoChaser) October 30, 2019
I for one am shocked Mazie Hirono does not understand how our Constitution works. pic.twitter.com/A0Djk00mPt
— Scott H (@dadbod_thor) October 30, 2019
Ignoble Prize nominee, easily.
— Jerry Bohl, Jr. (@jr_bohl) October 30, 2019
She retains her title as dimmest bulb in the Senate
— Lenny (@lenny_busker) October 30, 2019
Again, the is the same US SENATOR that didn't realize it was not merely a civil offense to enter the country illegally.
— James Baker "Liberate Hong Kong" (@JDtheDJ2004) October 30, 2019
Also, for what it's worth, the Constitution didn't have to be amended to allow black and female suffrage, it was amended to guarantee it. So the hypo doesn't even work on it's own terms
— Gregg Nunziata (@greggnunziata) October 31, 2019
I'm not saying she's the dumbest senator, but she's in the top three.
— Duck_On_A_Bike18 (@DBike18) October 30, 2019
She is literally the single dumbest member of either chamber
— The Long Defeat (@DefeatLong) October 30, 2019
Do her constituents not know how truly clueless she is? Or, do they know and just not care?
— Lovin'Life (@LakeLifeIsGreat) October 31, 2019
Still doesn't top her claim on the Senate floor that the Knights of Columbus were "alt-right". In the context of another judicial nomination, come to think of it. But it's a race between her, Harris, and Whitehouse as to "most inane D member of the Senate Judiciary Committee".
— aYlene_wRight (@AyleneWright) October 30, 2019
Related:
‘Lady, you’re CORRUPT’: Now that NYT has ‘corrected’ their Kavanaugh hit piece, Mazie Hirono’s thread looks even WORSE https://t.co/JW4ANXeygK
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 16, 2019
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