Biden’s nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has an interesting take on the law.
Natasha Merle believes that commonsense Republican measures such as voter ID laws and a wall to bring stability to the collapsed and chaotic southern border have their roots in white supremacy, according to a Fox News report.
In other words, she’s a wonderful Democratic partisan, but her judicial chops leave much to be desired. Biden’s nomination of Merle, along with seven other federal judicial appointments, was announced with much fanfare in January, with the president saying he was fulfilling a “promise to ensure that the nation’s courts reflect the diversity that is one of our greatest assets as a country.”
Merle happens to be deputy director of litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and she has also taught “racial justice and racial equity” courses at New York University and Columbia University.
Merle’s comments about Republicans were made during an episode of “The Breach” podcast, which followed the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, an event that apparently traumatizes leftist activists to no end.
“What we saw this past weekend in Charlottesville was horrible,” Merle said in the interview. “And many people and Republicans and legislatures have come out to denounce neo-Nazis and white supremacy, but I think lawmakers need to and should do more.
“You know, it’s inconsistent to denounce white supremacy but not repudiate voter ID laws, to not repudiate the Muslim ban, to not repudiate ‘the wall’. These are all things that support and are grounded in white supremacy. The voter ID bills disproportionately impact black and brown voters. They disproportionately prevent black and Latino voters from voting. So you cannot say you are not for white supremacy and at the same time be for disenfranchising black and Latino voters.”
During a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day speech in 2020 at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, Merle also explained how systemic racism affects “everything” in America.
“Decades after Bloody Sunday and the enactment of the Voting Rights Act,” she said, “states no longer use explicit poll taxes, literacy tests, dogs and whips, but voter suppression continues. We cannot lose sight of states such as Alabama, Texas, Florida that have created new barriers to make voting harder, including by eliminating early voting, passing restrictive voter ID laws, and purging legal voters from their rolls—all of this happening with the implicit and sometimes explicit support of the Justice Department.”
Later in the speech, she added, “[c]ases are usually brought to our attention by local community members or local contacts. From then, it obviously has to have a racial impact and a racial component, although I would say at a meta-level everything does in this country.”
During an April 27 confirmation hearing, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked Merle about her MLK Day speech, specifically the notion of “systemic racism” and how that would influence rulings by a supposedly impartial judge.
“What role do you believe that, as a federal judge, you would have in addressing systemic racial discrimination?” he asked.
Merle replied that it was “in the purview of policy makers, not the judicial branch,” to address the issue of systemic racial discrimination.
“If confirmed as a district court judge and a case of race-based discrimination or racial bias comes before me,” Merle said, “I would fairly and impartially apply the precedent of the Supreme Court and Second Circuit to the facts established in the record of the case.”
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29 thoughts on “Biden judicial nominee claims voter ID laws and border wall represent ‘white supremacy’”
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Can she be impeached?
This woman is completely unqualified to be judge at all. Everything she says is false.
the jig is a racist
White supremacists started in Russia , it’s Hitler’s thing and for all these un-american politicians and scammer’s are in it for there own narcissist selfish ignorance . So what is it you don’t have that everybody else has ? Let’s see , a job to pay your own way ! Voter I D laws is to be sure your who you say you are , and to only vote once ! The Wall is for our safety , protection , security measures that are very important to insure that criminals and terrorist , child molesters , drug dealers , women that are being used and abused , the drugs are killing 100,000 people a day , minimum ! So what’s racist . Let’s see it started in Africa , there being sold as slaves , too the world . Your problem is with Africa . Everybody works for someone , it’s called a job , get one and you’ll be free from the notions of not fitting in , idle hands are the tools of the devil .
That didn’t take long !
Surprised , anyone ?
Look in a mirror to see a RACIST
It’s kind of sad when mentally ill people are forced out into the open like this.
She (is that one of her pronouns?) should just toddle on back to her safe rubber walked room at the NAACP ligation division. The real world is obviously too much for her.
HOW COME WE CAN’T GET RID OF THESE POST???
The voter ID bills disproportionately impact black and brown voters. They disproportionately prevent black and Latino voters from voting
They keep saying these things, I keep asking how this is possible, but they can never explain why.
All these people have ID’s and for all the reasons you stated…”You can’t leave home without it” (like the American Express card.)
Everyone has an ID of some kind..
Apparently she thinks black and brown people are not capable of getting ID. SHE is racist.
Well of course / nothing about Porte toon of our country. Time is ticking and they will be getting theirs- can’t wait!
If white supremacy was really a thing, we wouldn’t have so many moronic, racist blacks in positions of power.
Great ….Another dumbass Dem (who happens to be Black) who is a racist Mutha Fk-R.
This type of nonsense is typical of the garbage the left spews knowing that their lame minions will eat it up, believe it as gospel, and spread it like the manure that it is. It’s part of their plan to indoctrinate their mindless Dem voters.
There is a list of 60+ reasons why people need an ID. Some are as follows; driver’s license, buy cigarettes, buy alcohol, open a bank account, rent an apartment, buy a car, applying for food stamps, medicaid, voting, unemployment, using pawn shops.
Do I need to continue?
Shouldn’t black and brown and orange and green people be insulted? Unless they never participate in any of those activities
America doesn’t need any more racist judges preaching hate as judicial opinions.
Biden says “She’s perfect!”, whether she can read a brief or not.
Just another racist joy reid installed. She’ll be easy on POC and hard on white people.
When you’re too stupid to function in the real world you can always blame whites for all your faults.
I have lived all over the US and from the time we 18 year olds were allowed to vote I have had to show my voters registration card or some form of identification when voting. I have never felt this was in any form or fashion as being “racist”. It was used to verify my right to vote. As far as the wall is concerned, how can an inanimate object be ” racist”? It is designed to stem the flow of illegal immigration. If you want to come in to the US do it through a legal port of entry.
Natasha is a Phucking Idiot
Natasha Merle seems eager but hideously, frighteningly, and miserably ill-prepared for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Hey- thanks, Dems.
biden’s diversity–extreme left wing partisan judges who have zero common sense. should work out well for any criminal democrats that come her way.
I bet she don’t go anywhere near the ghetto.
A nominee who makes this statement, especially a “judicial” nominee, is too stupid to be in the job.
What’s the problem lady? Look in the fkng mirror!!
What do we get, when we hire solely on Affirmative Action?
Beijing Biden’s endless objective of putting radical, America hating, Marxist blacks in position of power.