You may recall Charnelle Bjelkengren from her Senate confirmation hearings after Joe Biden nominated her for a District Court seat in Washington state. She generated all the wrong sorts of headlines when Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy asked her a couple of questions about the Constitution. When he asked her to describe Article 5 and what it does, Bjelkengren said that the article “is not coming to mind.” She seemed similarly unfamiliar with Article 2. Despite all of that, her appointment moved forward this week. With Diane Feinstein finally returning to work, the Democrats had enough people on the Judiciary Committee to advance her nomination along with two other rather dubious nominees. (Fox News)Read More
Our fundamentally unserious judicial confirmation process
