{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=7638D71A-BA2A-45E1-A0CA-DD2B39657127", "Senate Democrats Ready To Rubber Stamp  Biden-Harris Admin\u2019s Radical And Unqualified Nominees", "2024-09-10", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", "mcconnell", "https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding judicial nominations:\n\n\u201cAs we reconvened this week, the Democratic Leader announced that the Senate would, in his words, \u2018continue confirming the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s well-qualified judges and nominees\u2019. Nearly all the way through the Administration\u2019s term, our colleagues would be right to wonder just what he means by \u2018well-qualified\u2019.\n\n\u201cThe Biden-Harris Administration described Julie Su as well-qualified to serve as Secretary of Labor after presiding over $30 billion in unemployment fraud in her home state of California.\n\n\u201cUndoubtedly, the White House also sold Rachael Rollins as well-qualified to serve as U.S. Attorney in her home state of Massachusetts, a position from which she resigned last year after she was caught attempting to influence an election and lying about it to investigators.\n\n\u201cSo it may be worth taking the term \u2018well-qualified\u2019 with a grain of salt. Even more so when you consider who\u2019s in the Administration\u2019s pipeline of upcoming nominees.\n\n\u201cThere are, of course, the ones about which the Senate has learned alarming and disqualifying details since we began our consideration, like:\n\n\u201cAdeel Mangi, whose associations with terrorist apologists and advocates for cop-killers seem only to have grown after the Judiciary Committee questioned him under oath\u2026\n\n\u201cOr Sparkle Sooknanan, who couldn\u2019t seem to give our colleagues on the Committee a straight answer about the nature of her involvement in advocacy for hedge funds\u2019 right to collect on Puerto Rican debts\u2026\n\n\u201cOr Embry Kidd, who misled the Committee about his record of letting sex offenders off easy.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s the one so staggeringly unfit for life tenure on the federal bench that the Judiciary Committee rejected her nomination, itself: Sarah Netburn, whose political activism from the bench and failure to render timely decisions on the compensation claims of grieving 9/11 families cast doubt on both her ethics and professional competence.\n\n\u201cAnd there are the ones who, without a heavy dose of nepotism, wouldn\u2019t have seen the inside of a Senate hearing room, from Kevin Ritz to Carla Campbell to Julia Lipez.\n\n\u201cSo, Mr. President, the Democratic Leader will have to forgive some of us for not suspending our disbelief. I can assure our colleagues that Senate Republicans are no more inclined today than we were in July to rubber-stamp radicals for the federal bench.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=7638D71A-BA2A-45E1-A0CA-DD2B39657127"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.437652951106429, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}