If you ever see the names Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz in a headline, you know there are going to be fireworks. The two questioned President Joe Biden’s latest judicial nominee, Nancy Abudu, about her connection to the “scam organization” known as the Southern Poverty Law Center. As we reported back in 2018, the SPLC was facing multiple lawsuits and had agreed to pay $3.375 million for adding Maajid Nawaz to its “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.” The following year, the SPLC fired its co-founder, Morris Dees declined to explain why; just over a week later, the SPLC, which had recently reported more than a half-billion in assets, announced that president Richard Cohen would be stepping down. Pretty shady.
Sen. Josh Hawley had done his research and pulled up a number of quotes about the SPLC:
Joe Biden’s latest judicial nominee? A leader at a scam organization that Charity Watch gave an F and that had to pay millions in defamation claims. Watch 👇 pic.twitter.com/dOXsCQTnIb
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 27, 2022
And here’s Sen. Ted Cruz tagging in:
"You’ve spent a lifetime working for groups that smear half this country as white supremacists and klansmen… how could any litigant expect to get a fair shot if you were a judge given your history of extreme advocacy?" – @SenTedCruz to Biden judicial nominee Nancy Abudu pic.twitter.com/lYTjGaj4Pw
— JCN (@judicialnetwork) April 27, 2022
Remember way back in 2012, when Floyd Corkins attempted a mass shooting at the Family Research Council headquarters in Washington, D.C.? Corkins acknowledged in a hearing that he had visited the SPLC’s website, which identified the FRC to him as “an anti-gay organization.”
Cruz is right. All the Administration needed to do here was nominate someone who isn’t a toxic ideological extremist. But they couldn’t do it. https://t.co/grEZzd29NW
— Mitchell (@Mitchel13290681) April 27, 2022
I would’ve even been deferential to someone like Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner. Young, accomplished, judicial experience. But bootlicking a ridiculously tiny political constituency is more important to the clowns at the White House.
— Mitchell (@Mitchel13290681) April 27, 2022
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As we say all the time about the Democrats: All they have to do is not be crazy, but they just can’t help themselves.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 22, 2022
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