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WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — One of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees, a lawyer who unsuccessfully argued for Dobbs, was taken to task by Republican senators for her pro-abortion extremism.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Wednesday to consider Julie Rikelman’s nomination to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She previously worked as an attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, an organization that opposes all limits on abortion. In 2019, Rikelman said, in reference to a partial-birth abortion ban in Oklahoma, that “[p]oliticians should never take medical options off the table for pregnant patients.”
President Biden’s nominee to be First Circuit—Judge Julie Rikelman—has spent her career being an extreme zealot for abortion.
She refuses to answer the simple question: Should abortion be legal until the moment of birth?
It’s an easy answer. pic.twitter.com/pCZsYvrNp5
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 21, 2022
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that Rikelman’s career “embodies” the “pattern” of Biden nominating “partisan zealots” to the federal bench. “You have spent the majority of your professional life as an extreme zealot, advocating for abortion. That is
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