Biden accused of nominating judge with 'pro pedophile" record

 PJ Media:

Joe Biden's vetting process for judicial nominees is either ridiculously bad or he just doesn’t care how bad his nominees are as long as they check off the right diversity boxes.

Last month, Joe Biden nominated Maine Superior Court Judge Julia Lipez to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. I suspect she wasn't nominated because of her record because just last year she reduced the sentence of Michael Smith, a man who molested two young girls, aged four and nine, by half.

According to the Lewiston Sun-Journal, Judge Lipez suspended half of Smith's 12-year prison sentence and  remarked during the sentencing that Smith is "a person who has a lot of good in him."

Sen. John Kennedy expertly called her out on Thursday.

“Mr. Smith molested a 4-year-old girl, didn’t he?” Kennedy asked her.

“Senator, he was convicted after trial of unlawful sexual contact under Maine law,” she responded.

“That’s a nice way of putting it,” Kennedy mocked.

Kennedy then asked about the nine-year-old, and Lipez responded with the same lame remark.

“Senator, again, he was convicted of unlawful sexual contact against two children,” Lipez told him. “In that case, I did impose the sentence the state requested.”

After describing what Smith did to the two girls, he noted, “Now where I come from, we call that sexual abuse,” Kennedy responded. “You can pretty it up all you want to, judge."

Kennedy then quoted Lipez's own remarks from Smith's sentencing. "These are your words, not mine," Kennedy pointed out first. "‘What I can say’ — you said — ‘is that this is a very tragic situation of a person who has a lot of good in him,’ a lot of good in him, ‘having done a very… reprehensible thing to two young children, causing extreme damage.’ Did I read that correctly?”

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There is more.

I question why the Democrats voted to approve the nominee.  I don't see a lot of good in her judgment.

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