Pollak: America Dodged A Bullet when Merrick Garland Was Blocked for SCOTUSJoel B. Pollak 23 Feb 2021
Judge Merrick Garland received a hero’s welcome from the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. Several noted how thrilled they were to see him testifying in a confirmation hearing — as they had hoped in 2016, when Garland was nominated to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
But Garland’s testimony — shaky at times, radically left-wing at others — made clear that America dodged a bullet when Republicans blocked him.
Garland is no “moderate.†He is a standard-issue left-liberal, ready to follow the lead of the radicals who have taken over the Democratic Party.
It was both sad and amusing to see him attempt to define the term “systemic racism.†First, he said it meant “discrimination and widespread disparate treatment of communities of color and other ethnic minorities in this country.†He listed several examples — all of which showed economic inequality, without showing “disparate treatment.â€
Pressed further by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who noted that Garland’s definition looked more like “disparate impact†than any act of deliberate racial discrimination, Garland said that such difference “in some cases is the consequence of historical patterns, sometimes the consequence of unconscious bias.â€
Kennedy challenged him: “When you were at the Department of Justice, was the Department of Justice then systemically racist?†All he could do was dodge the question.
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