WATCH: Hawley torches Biden judicial nominee over claims traffic laws are racist, and more..!

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In April, Joe Biden nominated former ACLU attorney Carmen G. Iguina González to serve as a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Biden’s press release announcing the nomination in April gave a glowing report on Gonzalez:

Carmen G. Iguina González has been a counsel at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP in Washington, D.C., since 2022 and Director of the Howard University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic since 2024. She previously worked at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project as a Senior Staff Attorney from 2020 to 2022 and at the ACLU of Southern California as a Staff Attorney from 2014 to 2017 and an Equal Justice Works Fellow from 2012 to 2014.

She also worked as an associate at Jones Day from 2018 to 2020. Ms. Iguina González served as a law clerk for Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the U.S. Supreme Court from 2017 to 2018, Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2011 to 2012, and Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 2010 to 2011. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law in 2010 and her A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 2005.

Gonzelez was questioned during her nomination hearing on Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Republican Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) raked her over the coals in a brutal takedown.

Hawley posted two video clips from his exchange with Gonzalez, in which he grilled her for her previous claims that every asylum-seeker should received a taxpayer-funded attorney, and traffic laws are ‘racist.’

First, he wrote, “This Biden-Harris judicial nominee would like to provide every single asylum-seeker at our open border with TAXPAYER-funded legal counsel. For reference, we had 146,000 illegals who would fall under that category in 2023 alone.”

Gonzalez tried to dodge the question, and then claimed, “Any policy position I have taken in my role as an advocate, I understand I would be taking an oath to put that aside and dedicate myself instead to the fair and impartial application of the law, and that is what I commit to you I would do in every case.”

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Next, Hawley added, “This judicial nominee thinks police enforcing TRAFFIC LAWS is racist. And any detention of illegals at the border is “abhorrent.” Where do they find these people?”

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Click here to read Gonzalez’s opening statement.

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