#shorts Hawley asked, “Because?”
AliKhan then became silent, looking completely flabbergasted.
“Oh, come on judge, don’t make me do this. Do you want me to go through it for you? You lost this because Mayor Bowser was going to mass protests, herself personally, with thousands of people … At the same time she was doing that she was prohibiting churches, religious people, from gathering socially-distanced outside, wearing masks and the district court said ‘you can’t do that, that’s discrimination.’”
AliKhan said the court decision was “consistent” with other rulings before Hawley lodged one more question. “Why did you argue that religious services, religious people pose a greater risk of an infection than people gathered to argue for defunding the police?”
“I was representing my client,” AliKhan said.
“But why’d you make that argument?”
“My understanding was the nature of singing and other things epidemiologists thought could transmit COVID at a higher rate,” AliKhan said.
Hawley said he was “disappointed” that AliKhan made that argument before the court.
On 6/7/2023, Sen. Hawley Grilled Biden Judicial Nominee Who Defended D.C. Church Closures.
Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley left a Biden judicial nominee speechless after grilling her on her defense of Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Loren L. AliKhan defended Bowser in 2020 in the case of Capitol Hill Baptist Church vs. Bowser. The church sued the city for its restrictions on worship ceremonies, including those held outdoors. The church applied for a waiver but was denied despite the fact that at the same time the city was permitting and encouraging large protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death. AliKhan said she was defending the mayor who was her client.
other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/DMceNYTPsvM
Hawley: why are you fighting me on this? I can’t figure this out