‘These Positions Are Insane’: Josh Hawley Puts ‘Crazy’ Biden Judicial Nom On Blast For Bizarre First Amendment Claim

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri called out a Biden administration judicial nominee about a 2017 article that criticized “bathroom bills.”

Hawley questioned Noel Wise during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for three women nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as federal judges. Hawley read from a 2017 article Wise wrote for Time magazine on the passage of H.B. 2, a North Carolina bill requiring people to use restrooms that align with their biological sex, in which she claimed that so-called “bathroom bills” placed an “impossible burden” on the judicial branch.

“What’s this comment at the end of your article about ‘judges are obligated to see the world through a secular lens… When legislators blur the lines of church and state and enact laws that permit or prohibit conduct based on biologic gender as only male or female… they place an impossible burden on our judiciary,’ what’s that mean?” Hawley asked. “That distinctions between male and female are a violation of church and state?”

Hawley’s question left Wise silent for four seconds, according to a video posted by Hawley on X where he called her a “crazy judicial nominee.”

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