Biden Appointments Tag

Mitch McConnell Joins Other Republicans Calling on Biden to Withdraw Bureau of Land Management Nominee Tracy Stone-Manning

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 17, 2021 12 Comments

Tracy Stone-Manning, Joe Biden's nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management, was involved with eco-terrorists in the 1990s and agreed with a policy limiting the number of children for American families. She is an awful choice to lead such an agency, and Mitch McConnell has finally joined other Republicans in saying it.

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Biden Ed Dept. Nominee: Trump-Era Protections of Due Process Allow Students to ‘Rape With Impunity’

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 15, 2021 57 Comments

We haven't heard much about campus "rape culture" ever since the idea of abolishing the police became trendy in higher education, but Biden's pick to lead civil rights at the Department of Education is bringing it back. Under Trump, Betsy DeVos fought to uphold the concept of due process on campus. Now Catherine Lhamon wants to reverse that.

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Biden Naming President of U. Penn as U.S. Ambassador to Germany

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 03, 2021 3 Comments

"$911,000. That’s how much Biden made as a Penn professor between 2017 and 2019, according to financial disclosures he filed during the presidential campaign."...

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Biden Bureau of Land Management Nominee Advocated for Population Control

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 25, 2021 17 Comments

We recently wrote that Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, once worked with eco-terrorists. Now we have learned that she also advocated for population control. Is this person really the best we can do for this position?

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Sen. Josh Hawley Calls Critical Race Theory ‘State Sanctioned Racism’

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 23, 2021 15 Comments

Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley called out Critical Race Theory as divisive and un-American on the Senate floor on Tuesday morning. Hawley drew on his own experience in higher education. He worked as an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law at one point.

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Biden DOJ Nominee Worked With Hunter Biden at Law Firm That Represented Burisma

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 22, 2021 9 Comments

"The link could pose a potential conflict of interest as the Justice Department is investigating Hunter Biden over his tax affairs and foreign business dealings."...

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Democrats Renew Push for Justice Stephen Breyer to Retire

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 17, 2021 73 Comments

Demand Justice, the progressive activist group headed by former Hillary Clinton campaign aide Brian Fallon, is renewing its calls for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire. They desperately want Joe Biden to be able to appoint a younger justice, presumably someone much further to the left.

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Biden Nominee for Bureau of Land Management Allegedly Worked With ‘Eco-Terrorists’

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 17, 2021 19 Comments

Democrats and the Biden administration keep talking about how urgent it is to deal with extremism and radicalism. Does that argument apply to Joe Biden's appointments? Tracy Stone-Manning, who Biden nominated to head the Bureau of Land Management, allegedly worked with eco-terrorists in the 1990s. Shouldn't that disqualify her?

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McConnell: I’ll Block Biden SCOTUS Appointment in 2024 (and Maybe 2023) If I’m Majority Leader

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2021 45 Comments

Says "it’s highly unlikely. In fact, no, I don’t think either party, if it controlled [the Senate], if it were [a] different [party] from the president, would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of an election. What was different in 2020 was we...

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Biden Will Nominate LA Mayor Eric Garcetti as Ambassador to India

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 01, 2021 33 Comments

The last few times the Legal Insurrection team covered Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, we called for his resignation over the appalling homelessness crisis and reviewed his harsh COVOD-restrictions.

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Biden’s Pick to Head ATF Wants to Ban AR-15s

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 27, 2021 45 Comments

Biden has made some awful appointments, but none so far have been as dangerously outside the mainstream as David Chipman. Biden wants him to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Chipman openly admitted in a hearing on Wednesday that he wants to ban the AR-15, the most popular rifle in America today.

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Biden Picks Catherine Lhamon, Enemy of Campus Due Process, To Head Civil Rights Office in Education Dept.

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 14, 2021 26 Comments

Joe Biden has picked Catherine Lhamon, a holdover from the Obama administration, to head civil rights in his education department. Advocates of free speech and due process on campus have concerns.

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Pskai: Biden ‘Proud to Have’ UN Ambassador Who Called U.S. Founding Principles Racist

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 16, 2021 46 Comments

UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield insisted that America has to acknowledge its own human rights failure before it rejoins the UN Human Rights Council. She claimed she has seen "how the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles."

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Democrats preparing legislation to pack Supreme Court, adding four new Justices

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2021 83 Comments

"The bill would add four seats to the high court, bringing the total to 13, from the current 9"...

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Here Come The Biden Judges, Including His Likely Eventual SCOTUS Nominee

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2021 28 Comments

Will Republicans have the guts to go after the Biden appellate court nominees to prevent SCOTUS grooming the way Democrats went after Miguel Estrada?...

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Hirono, Duckworth Play Race Card With Biden’s Cabinet Nominees

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 24, 2021 14 Comments

Sens. Tammy Duckworth (IL) and Mazie Hirono (HI) said they would object to future Cabinet appointments by President Joe Biden if he did not nominate more Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI). I believe we call that racism when a person prefers a race over others.

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Neera Tanden Withdraws Nomination for Biden’s Office of Management and Budget

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on March 02, 2021 7 Comments

It's official. Tanden is out. Tanden's nomination was dead in the water without the support of Sen. Manchin. The person in Biden's ear said they "looked forward to having her serve in a role" in the administration, just not this one.

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Psaki Suggests Appointing a Woman to Run the Small Business Administration is a Great Help to Small Businesses

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 17, 2021 46 Comments

When Press Secretary Jen Psaki what President Joe Biden is doing to help their small business, her response was definitely not expected.

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