{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=7A5AA8EA-4A14-4700-B682-BC95C589D04C", "Biden-Harris Admin. Judicial Wishlist: Marxism Apologists, Progressive Activists, And Nepotism Hires", "2024-07-31", "2024", "2024-07", "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\u201cThe Senate is about to leave Washington for the August state work period. When we come back, Senate Democrats will face a daunting list of radical judges that the Biden-Harris Administration will want them to confirm.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s Adeel Mangi and his record of bumping elbows with terrorist apologists and advocates for cop-killers.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s Kevin Ritz and Karla Campbell, both the nepotistic beneficiaries of corrupt bargains between the Biden-Harris Administration and the judges they would replace.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s Julia Lipez, another nepotism hire, who has distinguished herself in her leniency towards a parent who killed their baby with fentanyl.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s Embry Kidd, who went soft on sex abusers and then misled the Judiciary Committee about it.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s Ryan Park, the self-described \u2018tip of the spear\u2019 of progressive activism, who fought hard to let colleges discriminate illegally against Asian applicants.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s Sparkle Sooknanan, whose nomination Congresswoman Velezquez called \u2018an insult to the people of Puerto Rico.\u2019\n\n\u201cAnd then there\u2019s Mustafa Kasubhai, who\u2019s advocated incorporating Marxist theory into property law.\n\n\u201cSo as our Democratic colleagues head out of town, I would suggest that they consider whether the radical goals of the Biden-Harris judicial project are worth it.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"]], "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=7A5AA8EA-4A14-4700-B682-BC95C589D04C"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.2806900087743998, "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"}