Mitch McConnell Decries 'Liberal Dark Money' Supporting Judicial Nominees

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During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) spoke about 'dark money' that he claims is being used to promote liberal judicial nominees.

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00:00On another matter, I haven't spared any breath calling attention to the parade of unfit nominees

00:09that the Biden administration would like to see confirmed to lifetime seats on the federal

00:14bench.

00:15I've urged my colleagues to consider Adele Manji's alarming connections to terrorist

00:21sympathizers and Nancy Maldonado's record of staggering unproductive productivity on

00:29her lower court.

00:32So it's only fitting that I call attention to another nominee whose affiliations bear

00:37all the hallmarks of the dark money influence that so animates some of our senior-most colleagues

00:45on the Judiciary Committee.

00:48The Senate hears a great deal from our colleague, the junior senator from Rhode Island, on the

00:54subject of dark money.

00:57But so far, I haven't heard him express any concern that Sparkel Sukhnanan, nominated

01:05to the D.C. Circuit Court, has secured the support of Robert Rabin.

01:10Mr. Rabin, of course, is a notorious shepherd of liberal nominees whose client list reads

01:16like a who's who of liberal dark money, with groups backed by everyone from George Soros

01:23to Arabella advisers.

01:25Apparently, this nominee engaged in a discussion with Mr. Rabin and his associates after her

01:33nomination was announced.

01:37This sort of contact between liberal nominees and liberal handlers doesn't fit with Senate

01:44Democrats' idea of dark money influence as simply a conservative pastime.

01:50So it's hardly surprising that senior members of the Judiciary Committee majority have thought

01:55of time to scrutinize Ms. Sukhnanan with the sort of vigor they devote to tarring organizations

02:05for conservative causes.

02:07Of course, maybe Senate Democrats actually support Ms. Sukhnanan's legal defense of so-called

02:16vulture funds as they cut to the front of the line of Puerto Rico's creditors.

02:24One Democratic House member from New York said the success makes her nomination, quote,

02:29an insult to the people of Puerto Rico.

02:33But what does she know?

02:35Or maybe they agree with Ms. Sukhnanan's supposedly conservative former law firm that

02:41she didn't disparage the former president's election litigation efforts on a conference

02:46call and that the New York Times is simply lying when they say that she did.

02:53It just doesn't add up, unless the real ledger being used is the one with liberal dark money

03:00from Robert Rabin and Arabella advisers.

Mitch McConnell Decries 'Liberal Dark Money' Supporting Judicial Nominees

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