The Washington Standard
“I’ll Endorse You, You Make My Idiot Son-In-Law A Federal Judge.”
“I’ll scratch your back, you scratch mine. I’ll endorse you, you make my idiot son-in-law a federal judge.”
Biden’s nominee to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas withdrew his name from consideration late Tuesday, marking the second time in two years that his nomination to the federal bench failed to get through the Senate.
Jabari Wamble, who has served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Kansas since 2011, was first nominated to serve as a judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in August of last year. His nomination never made it through the Senate Judiciary Committee and he was instead nominated for the district court, a step down, in February.
Wamble is the son-in-law of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Kansas City Democrat who was an early supporter of Biden in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
Nominating unqualified appointees, including federal judges, is nothing new for Biden. Everyone has seen videos of his judicial nominees who are unable to answer basic questions about the Constitution and the law…
