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Official title: Nomination of Kara Marie Westercamp (Executive Calendar)
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. DURBIN. Mr. President, those seeking to recoup losses from President Trump's disastrous tariff policies will appear before what is called the Court of International Trade.
his second term, his choice to fill a vacancy on this Court Kara Westercamp was tapped because of her obvious loyalty to the President who nominated her instead of her loyalty to the law.
she lacks the independence and the maturity and the temperament to be a judge.
Ms. Westercamp tried to delete her old tweets so we wouldn't see them on the committee. She failed. Our staff was able to recover them.
In these tweets, Ms. Westercamp spread conspiracy theories about the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol and attacked Republicans and Democrats alike for being insufficiently loyal to President Trump.
She elevated claims that the January 6 attack was “orchestrated by Members of the Senate, and members of the [Capitol] police.”
Let me repeat that. In her tweets, she claimed that the January 6 attack on the Capitol, which we all saw the news of, was “orchestrated by Members of the Senate, and members of the [Capitol] police.
So much for the judgment of this would-be judge.
2020 election. Vice President Pence was sitting where the Presiding Officer sits today.
President. Within minutes, we were told to leave as well because a violent mob of armed insurrectionists intended to prevent the certification of the 2020 Presidential election results, which Donald Trump had lost by 7 million popular votes.
But Ms. Westercamp dismissed this event entirely. She retweeted a post that read—and I quote:
We're all supposed to be sending thoughts and prayers to
traumatized Members of Congress whose workday was interrupted
for a couple of hours.
Mr. President, did you see the video? Did you see the mob? Did you see the damage they did to this U.S. Capitol Building?
Yes, we left for our lives. The Vice President was spirited out of here by the Secret Service to protect his life.
Ms. Westercamp has also repeatedly attacked Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky for supposedly “betraying President Trump.” She even called Senator McConnell “a modern-day Benedict Arnold,” and she repeatedly called him “Cocaine Mitch”—an inflammatory nickname used by MAGA critics of Senator McConnell, the Republican Senator and former leader from Kentucky.
in her tweets. They are just too much. But of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, she wrote:
True to NO ONE but [his] own self-preservation.
not toeing the MAGA line. There is much,
much more that she had to say about Senator Graham.
Ms. Westercamp accused Senator Collins of Maine of prioritizing her “own personal political power” over loyalty to President Trump and called for her removal, as well as the removal of Senators Murkowski and Cassidy following their vote on the second impeachment effort against the President.
Ms. Westercamp even posted a sexually explicit image and joke about former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—a post that Ms. Westercamp herself later described as “not safe for work.”
were made while Ms. Westercamp was on duty, actually, as an attorney at the Department of Justice; she was tweeting away. That would violate Federal law.
quickly to Ms. Westercamp's nomination. After you have heard about her background, what do you think as a Senator?
priority for the other side. It is a disgrace that Senate Republicans are moving forward on this nomination while Senator McConnell is still in the hospital and so soon after Senator Graham's passing.
competence, for independence, and most especially, for their temperament. Ms. Westercamp does not meet that standard. I urge my colleagues to oppose her nomination.