Fri Mar 10, 2023 – 1:43 pm ESTFri Mar 10, 2023 – 2:09 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Senate voted 51-41 Thursday to confirm President Joe Biden’s nomination of far-left Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Maria Araújo Kahn to the influential U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, with the assistance of two Republican senators.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina joined Democrats in voting to confirm Khan. Susans is a liberal Republican notorious for her support of abortion-on-demand; Graham is a moderate who has frustrated conservatives for years through his stances issues like illegal immigration and affirming Democrat nominees in the name of “bipartisanship” (though Graham has attempted to ingratiate himself to some on the right by attaching himself to former President Donald Trump).
The lawmakers crossed the aisle to back Kahn despite the judge’s history of statements raising serious questions about her commitment to freedom of speech.
In a 2020 ruling concerning a white man convicted of breaching the peace for using a racial epithet against a black parking attendant who ticketed him, Kahn expressed dismay that, because some groups are
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors