Live from Music Row Friday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio for another edition of Crom’s Crommentary.
CROM CARMICHAEL:
Whoever the leaker is, what they did was they have created enormous problems for the Supreme Court itself as an institution, and will certainly create a problem for themselves. And … there are only 45 choices, and there are only 36 that are going to be sat down and be interviewed by a federal official.
So it’s a serious matter. My Crommentary is on a similar subject. I’m not going to get this name right, so I’m going to give it to you if you would read that name to me. (Leahy reads) Nusrat Choudhury. She is up for a judicial appointment and she was testifying before the Senate … Senate Judiciary Committee.
And Senator Kennedy asked her the following question. When Senator Kennedy from Louisiana slammed the nominee about the remarks she made on a panel at Princeton in 2015, the following exchange ensued.
Mr. Kennedy said, “You said that the killing of unarmed black men by police happens every day in America. Did you say that?”
Ms. Chauduri said, “Senator, I don’t recall that statement, but it’s something I may have said in that context.”
Mr. Kennedy: “You think it happens every single day?
“I believe that statement that I was making in the comment was in a role as an advocate, and I was engaging in rhetorical advocacy.”
“But you do believe that police officers kill unarmed black men every day in America?”
“Senator, I believe the killing of unarmed black citizens by law enforcement is tragic.”
Kennedy said, “I believe it’s tragic, too. But do you believe it happens every day?
She said, “I spoke only as an advocate.”
The fact is last year there were six unarmed black people who were killed by policemen. And unarmed, by definition, does not mean they’re not fighting with them, it just means they’re not armed. Here’s the question that I have here.
Biden has now come out talking about the leaked opinion from the courts, and he is engaging in the same excessive rhetoric as this judicial nominee and he is making stuff up out of whole cloth about how this ruling will actually impact who people can marry, whether or not they conceive a child, and whether or not they can raise their own child.
What he said goes on and on and on. And the opinion that was leaked says this opinion affects only this question and no other right. It says that in the opinion that was leaked. And so what Biden is saying is engaging in excess.
So my question, Michael, is should this person be in the Court, since disinformation is knowingly making up false statements and then spreading them so that other people will then believe something and act on something that is factually false.
Should that person be a federal judge? My answer is, clearly not. But heck, we’ve got one that’s the president of the United States, who will make stuff up about everything. And that is where we are today.
And the other members of the Biden administration, Mayorkas and all these other people, are just following their lead and all of them just make stuff up.
Jen Psaki doesn’t give a press briefing without making up at least three or four different facts out of whole cloth or denying true facts and saying they’re false. That’s where we are.
And the idea of having a governance board that will determine what disinformation is by an administration that puts up before the judiciary committee a nominee who, on the record, has made stuff up and is engaging in disinformation and is proud of it. That’s where we are today, Michael.
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