{"id":147349,"date":"2026-03-27T15:24:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/27\/biglaw-partner-slammed-for-orwellian-answers-to-senators-questions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:24:40","slug":"biglaw-partner-slammed-for-orwellian-answers-to-senators-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/27\/biglaw-partner-slammed-for-orwellian-answers-to-senators-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Partner Slammed For \u2018Orwellian\u2019 Answers To Senator\u2019s Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The answers here, which obviously are canned, they are prerehearsed, they are Orwellian in their denial of reality, and they are a subversion of this process. They are an insult to this committee, but they also fundamentally show a complete lack of independence and backbone and impartiality, which are the fundamental requirements of a United States district court judge, or a judge on any panel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, losing his patience during the nomination hearing<\/a> for Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough partner Sheria Clark\u0435. Clarke was tapped by President Trump to fill a federal district court vacancy, and appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. Clarke was unable, or perhaps more accurately, unwilling, to answer who won the 2020 and 2024 elections, instead giving nonanswers about the process of electing the president. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The post Biglaw Partner Slammed For \u2018Orwellian\u2019 Answers To Senator\u2019s Questions<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The answers here, which obviously are canned, they are prerehearsed, they are Orwellian in their denial of reality, and they are a subversion of this process. They are an insult to this committee, but they also fundamentally show a complete lack of independence and backbone and impartiality, which are the fundamental requirements of a United States district court judge, or a judge on any panel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, losing his patience during the nomination hearing<\/a> for Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough partner Sheria Clark\u0435. Clarke was tapped by President Trump to fill a federal district court vacancy, and appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. Clarke was unable, or perhaps more accurately, unwilling, to answer who won the 2020 and 2024 elections, instead giving nonanswers about the process of electing the president. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. The answers here, which obviously are canned, they are prerehearsed, they are Orwellian in their denial of reality, and they are a subversion of this process. They are an insult to this committee, but they also fundamentally show a complete lack of independence and backbone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/220px-Richard_Blumenthal_Official_Portrait-AZ8CUF.jpg?fit=220%2C279&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}