Some easy questions, Kennedy questions Biden judicial nominee Holly Thomas

The questions she’s asked aren’t complicated. They’re simple. They’re the kind of questions anyone should be able to have a ready answer for. And Holly Thomas is incapable of answering them. There’s a legal doctrine she professes ignorance on, which wasn’t a good look, and then Kennedy asks her to name a policy she likes which has been held as unconstitutional. After Kennedy gives her three chances to answer it he gives up.

It’s of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in which Holly Thomas, a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench who’s being nominated for a spot on the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, is being examined by Sen. John Kennedy.