BOOM: Republican Representative John Kennedy PRESSES Biden’s Judicial Nominee – “Do you think we should forgive criminal misbehavior in the name of social justice?”

It was recently reported that Sen. John Kennedy spent five minutes asking one of President Biden’s judicial nominees the same question nine times in a row because she refused to give him a straight answer.

Biden has nominated Anne Traum to become the U.S. district judge for the District of Nevada, and during Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the Louisiana Republican asked Traum about her beliefs regarding criminal justice.

“Do you think we should forgive criminal misbehavior in the name of social justice?” Kennedy queried.

“Senator, thank you for that question. I recognize that all issues of crime and all responses to crime are fundamentally policy issues. So, those are important issues, they are important for our community and our nation, but I leave those policy issues to the policymakers if confirmed as a judge I would not be a policymaker,” Traum said before Kennedy moved to cut her off.

“I’m not asking your opinion as a judge. I’m asking your opinion as a person, as a law professor. I’ll stipulate, with all of you, that you’re all going to be fair and unbiased. Now, do you think misbehavior and illegal acts should be forgiven in the name of social justice?” Kennedy tried again.

“Senator, I do believe that all criminal policy is fundamentally a policy issue –” Traum began again before the GOP senator interjected once again to ask whether, as a person, she thinks an illegal act should be forgiven in the name of social justice.

“Senator, that is not a view that I have taken in my work,” Traum, a law professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, replied.

Watch the whole thing here!

She was nominated for one of two vacancies that the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts considered an emergency fill. She was chosen by a judicial commission in Nevada consisting of Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen.