{"id":150512,"date":"2026-05-06T15:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/06\/when-who-won-in-2020-is-a-question-too-risky-for-judicial-nominees-to-answer-you-know-weve-got-a-huge-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:09:54","slug":"when-who-won-in-2020-is-a-question-too-risky-for-judicial-nominees-to-answer-you-know-weve-got-a-huge-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/06\/when-who-won-in-2020-is-a-question-too-risky-for-judicial-nominees-to-answer-you-know-weve-got-a-huge-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"When \u2018Who Won In 2020?\u2019 Is A Question Too Risky For Judicial Nominees To Answer, You Know We\u2019ve Got A Huge Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The battle we\u2019re facing at this point goes down to the very basics \u2026 whether people will even acknowledge something that may not win the favor of the president.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is a sad situation. I don\u2019t know how this story ends, because virtually all these nominees are going to be approved.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Sen. Dick Durbin<\/a> (D-IL), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in comments given<\/a> during an event hosted by the Chicago Bar Association, titled \u201cUnder Siege: The American Judiciary and the Rule of Law,\u201d<\/a> concerning the fact that judicial nominees that have appeared before Durbin\u2019s committee are now refusing to respond to simple questions like \u201cwhat happened on January 6?\u201d or \u201cwho won the 2020 election?\u201d for fear of possibly facing Donald Trump\u2019s ire over their answers.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post When \u2018Who Won In 2020?\u2019 Is A Question Too Risky For Judicial Nominees To Answer, You Know We\u2019ve Got A Huge Problem<\/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 battle we\u2019re facing at this point goes down to the very basics \u2026 whether people will even acknowledge something that may not win the favor of the president.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is a sad situation. I don\u2019t know how this story ends, because virtually all these nominees are going to be approved.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Sen. Dick Durbin<\/a> (D-IL), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in comments given<\/a> during an event hosted by the Chicago Bar Association, titled \u201cUnder Siege: The American Judiciary and the Rule of Law,\u201d<\/a> concerning the fact that judicial nominees that have appeared before Durbin\u2019s committee are now refusing to respond to simple questions like \u201cwhat happened on January 6?\u201d or \u201cwho won the 2020 election?\u201d for fear of possibly facing Donald Trump\u2019s ire over their answers.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. The battle we\u2019re facing at this point goes down to the very basics \u2026 whether people will even acknowledge something that may not win the favor of the president. That is a sad situation. I don\u2019t know how this story ends, because virtually all these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150513,"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-150512","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\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-UJMDdD.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150512","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=150512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}