Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mazie-hirono" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mazie Hirono</a> (D-HI) called the political Left&#8217;s opposition to Republicans&#8217; pro-life agenda &#8220;literally&#8221; a &#8220;call to arms in our country&#8221; during remarks Wednesday on the Senate floor.
Hirono&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-the-wake-of-roe-v-wade-attacks-on-churches-pregnancy-centers-escalate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> come after churches and pro-life pregnancy centers and organizations came under attack following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Data compiled by the <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/newsroom/press-releases/biden-must-unequivocally-condemn-attacks-on-pro-life-pregnancy-centers-peaceful-advocates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan B. Anthony List</a> and <a href="https://catholicvote.org/pregnancy-center-attack-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CatholicVote</a> found that dozens of centers were attacked since the the early May leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion on the Court&#8217;s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.
&#8220;When I hear my colleagues talking about how, you know, it should be states&#8217; rights, or government should not be telling us what to do, the word &#8216;hypocrites,&#8217; it doesn&#8217;t even go far enough to call them out on what they&#8217;re doing,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;This is an outright attack on women in this country. That is how I see it.&#8221;
&#8220;That is how more and more women and those who support our right to make decisions about our own bodies, that is how we see it,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And why? Because that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening.&#8221;
&#8220;Madam president, I yield the floor, but clearly, you know, this is a — literally call to arms in our country, I yield the floor,&#8221; she concluded.
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Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/maziehirono?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@maziehirono</a>: Fighting the pro-life movement &quot;is literally a call to arms in our country.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/JCtAwMpzE1">pic.twitter.com/JCtAwMpzE1</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1570131713703006215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/zero-arrests-16-janes-revenge-attacks-pro-life-organizations">reported</a> Wednesday that there have been no arrests made in connection to the attacks on the pro-life centers even though the far-left group Jane&#8217;s Revenge allegedly claimed responsibility for &#8220;at least 18 acts of vandalism and arson nationwide in the name of abortion rights.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-investigating-attacks-on-pro-life-centers-organizations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> back in June that the FBI had opened up criminal investigations into the attacks on pro-life centers.
In response to inquiries regarding an alleged Jane’s Revenge “communique,” the FBI said that while it would not comment on specific groups, the bureau is “investigating a series of attacks and threats targeting pregnancy resource centers and faith-based organizations across the country.”
“The FBI takes all threats seriously and we continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners and will remain vigilant to protect our communities,” the bureau told The Daily Wire. “We would like to remind members of the public that if they observe anything suspicious or have information about potential threats to report it to law enforcement immediately, call their local FBI field office, or submit a tip to tips.fbi.gov.”

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Senator Hirono Calls Fighting Pro-Lifers ‘Literally’ A ‘Call To Arms’ After Pro-Life Centers Attacked

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Hawaii

Mazie Hirono

Pro-Life Movement

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) faced backlash online on Monday afternoon over remarks that she made during the confirmation hearings of President Joe Biden&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
&#8220;Though my Republican colleagues and public figures have attempted to undermine your qualifications, through their pejorative use of the term &#8216;affirmative action&#8217; and they have implied you were solely nominated due to your race and not for other factors,&#8221; Hirono claimed. &#8220;Apparently, some have even claimed that you need to show your LSAT scores to determine whether you are a top legal mind. This is incredibly offensive and condescending.&#8221;
&#8220;Let me be clear, your nomination is about, not about filling a quota. It is about time,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;It&#8217;s about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished black woman on the Supreme Court. It&#8217;s about time, our highest court better reflects the country it serves. It&#8217;s about time that black women and girls across the country can finally see themselves who look like them sitting on the highest court making decisions that will impact their lives.&#8221;
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&quot;They have implied you were solely nominated due to your race&#8230;Your nomination is not about filling a quota&#8230; It is about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished Black woman serving on the Supreme Court,&quot; Sen. Hirono says of Judge Jackson in opening remarks. <a href="https://t.co/5CsFDDheXY">pic.twitter.com/5CsFDDheXY</a>
&mdash; CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1505964838576603136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Notable responses included:
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<li>Stephen L. Miller, political commentator: &#8220;Nobody is implying she was nominated simply because of her race. Joe Biden actually said it.&#8221;</li>
<li>Dana Loesch, political commentator: &#8220;Biden actually said it on the campaign trail. I guess Judge Janice Rogers Brown didn’t count when Democrats threatened to filibuster her nomination.&#8221;</li>
<li>Nate Madden, GOP comms: &#8220;&#8230; that conclusion implies this actually IS about filling a quota &#8230;&#8221;</li>
<li>Helen Raleigh, author: &#8220;It was the President Biden who said he would pick someone based on race &amp; gender. And many of us have repeatedly warned that affirmative action brings stigma and taints the achievements of minorities it intended to help.&#8221;</li>
<li>Charles Fain Lehman, reporter: &#8220;One of the weird features of contemporary race discourse is that quotas are both absolutely necessary and also totally unthinkable.&#8221; He added,  &#8220;Joe Biden&#8217;s stated view is that Stephen Breyer&#8217;s seat ought to go to a black woman. That&#8217;s a quota (of one black woman on SCOTUS)! You can, of course, be *pro quota*. But it&#8217;s weird to favor racial apportionment and *also* say that it&#8217;s demeaning to apportion.&#8221;</li>
<li>Matt Murphy, radio host: &#8220;Regardless of ANYTHING else, according to Joe Biden, if she were not black and female, she would not be there. Those are his parameters. This was his quota. Not mine.&#8221;</li>
<li>Tamlyn Sheng, political strategist: &#8220;It&#8217;s &#8216;not about filling a quota,&#8217; but your race is really important, but it had nothing to do with your nomination, but President Biden said he would only appoint a black woman. So it is about race?&#8221;</li>
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Mazie Hirono Faces Backlash For Claiming GOP Implied Biden SCOTUS Pick Nominated Due To Race

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On Wednesday, appearing on MSNBC, Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said she would like Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s replacement to “consider the impact &#8230; on people in our country so that they are not making decisions just based on” the law.
Hirono <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/01/26/hirono-i-hope-scotus-pick-will-not-make-rulings-just-based-on-law-and-will-consider-the-impact-of-rulings/">stated</a>, “What I’m looking for is a justice who can be fair and impartial and who does not have an ideological axe to grind, which is what we saw — as far as I’m concerned — in President Trump’s nominees, including to the Supreme Court.”
“So, yes, I am expecting a fight, but there you have it,” she continued, then said, “And I’m looking for someone who’s going to be, not only highly qualified, as all of the people that you already talked about are, but who really brings to the judiciary the kind of diversity that I’d like, that — someone who will consider the impact, the effects of whatever decision-making is on people in our country so that they are not making decisions just based on,” here she pointed out her desire for the “effects,” digressing, “which I would like them to base it on,” before returning to “law.”
Then she returned to her desire for decision-making to be based on “effects,” adding, “which would be nice, and precedent, and who are not eagerly trying to get rid of decades of precedent that would protect a woman’s right to choose, for example, and voting rights, etc. But I’d like a justice who also will take into consideration the real-life impact of the decisions he or she will be making.”
In September 2018, during the Supreme Court hearings for Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Hirono whether Kavanaugh should receive the &#8220;same presumption of innocence as anyone else in America,&#8221; to which Hirono replied, &#8220;I put his denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms of how he approaches his cases.&#8221;
&#8220;When I say that he is very outcome driven, he has an ideological agenda, very outcome driven, and I could sit here and talk to you about some of the cases that exemplifies his ability to be fair,&#8221; Hirono added.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Emily Zanotti <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-sen-mazie-hirono-says-she-doubts-kavanaughs-emily-zanotti/">noted</a> at the time, “Hirono&#8217;s meaning is clear: because Kavanaugh embraces conservative jurisprudence — ostensibly including opposition to Roe v. Wade, though he did not voice such opposition during his confirmation hearings — he cannot be trusted not to harm women. The statement is demonstrative, as many on social media pointed out, of how Democrats are approaching the Kavanaugh accusations, generally: they&#8217;re not opposed to Kavanaugh because of the allegations, they&#8217;re opposed to him because they disagree with the way he decides cases.”
In October 2020, during the vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Hirono (HI) <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-hirono-votes-hell-no-on-confirming-barrett-storms-out/">cast her vote</a> as a &#8220;hell, no&#8221; before appearing to storm out. She stated, “I&#8217;d like to say, hell no.”

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Dem Senator Says Breyer’s Replacement Should Not Make Decisions Just Based On The Law

Stephen Breyer

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Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, appears to have changed her tune on holding those alleged to have killed Jamal Khashoggi accountable for his murder in 2018.
Only a month after Khashoggi&#8217;s death in October 2018, Hirono attacked President Donald Trump, claiming on Twitter that Trump was siding with the &#8220;murderers.&#8221;
&#8220;Donald Trump yet again ignored our own intelligence community&#8217;s assessment in Jamal Khashoggi&#8217;s death, choosing to side with Mr. Khashoggi&#8217;s murderers. Why?&#8221; Hirono tweeted. &#8220;He will ignore even the most basic human rights standards to protect himself &amp; his own interests.&#8221;
The Biden administration declassified a report last week on Khashoggi&#8217;s death that alleges Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman (MBS) “approved” the operation that resulted in his death.
Hirono was asked about the development during an interview on Sunday with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos and she appeared to change her tune on the issue.
Here is the exchange that Hirono had with Stephanopoulos:
<blockquote>STEPHANOPOULOS: I do want to begin with that action against Saudi Arabia. President Biden said his team, as I said, is going to be announcing more actions tomorrow. Should he be doing more to target the crown prince personally
HIRONO: He is re-assessing our relationship with Saudi Arabia, which is an ally, and I don&#8217;t think the chapter is closed on the outcome of the disclosure of this report. That&#8217;s my hope.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So what would you like to see done?
HIRONO: I don&#8217;t know because, let&#8217;s face it, George, it&#8217;s a very complicated situation. Saudi Arabia is an ally, and so &#8212; yes, there are calls to do more, and I await the reassessment that Joe Biden is going to engage in, regarding Saudi Arabia, and the pause in arms sales, that I think hits Saudi Arabia, and I think that there will be more. I hope so.</blockquote>
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Mazie Hirono in 2018:
&quot;Trump yet again ignored our own intelligence community&#39;s assessment in Jamal Khashoggi&#39;s death, choosing to side with Mr. Khashoggi&#39;s murderers.”<a href="https://t.co/u4mS47dnLW">https://t.co/u4mS47dnLW</a>
Mazie Hirono in 2021:
“It&#39;s a very complicated situation. Saudi Arabia is an ally&quot; <a href="https://t.co/GxC7VmUQw3">pic.twitter.com/GxC7VmUQw3</a>
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Hirono was not the only top Democrat to change their tune on the issue as President Joe Biden also has taken a much <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-fearing-saudi-arabia-wont-penalize-mbs-after-he-promised-during-election-that-he-would-hold-saudi-leaders-accountable-reports">more measured</a> approach to the issue versus remarks that he made while on the campaign trail.
During a Democrat primary debate in November 2019, Biden was asked by MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell if he would hold those responsible for Khashoggi’s death responsible for what happened.
Here is the exchange [emphasis added]:
<blockquote>MITCHELL: Mr. Vice President, the CIA has concluded that the leader of Saudi Arabia directed the murder of U.S.-based journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. The state department also says the Saudi government is responsible for executing nonviolent offenders and for torture. President Trump has not punished senior Saudi leaders. Would you?
BIDEN: Yes. And I said it at the time, Khashoggi was in fact murdered and dismembered, and I believe in the order of the Crown Prince. And I would make it very clear we were not going to in fact sell more weapons to them, we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are. There’s very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia. And I would also, as pointed out, I would end subsidies that we have, end the sale of material to the Saudis — where they’re going in and murdering children and they’re murdering innocent people, and so they have to be held accountable.</blockquote>
The New York Times reported last week that Biden now is &#8220;fearing&#8221; the consequences of penalizing MBS.
“Biden has decided that the price of directly penalizing Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is too high, according to senior administration officials,” The Times <a href="https://archive.is/vz0WL#selection-567.4-567.347">reported</a>. “Biden’s aides said that as a practical matter, Prince Mohammed would not be invited to the United States anytime soon, and they denied that they were giving Saudi Arabia a pass, describing series of new actions on lower-level officials intended to penalize elite elements of the Saudi military and impose new deterrents to human rights abuses.”

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Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono Appears To Change Tune On Holding Saudi Arabia Accountable For Journalist’s Death

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Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) — who is <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/mazie_hirono/412200/report-card/2019">ranked</a> as one of the most partisan and far-left members of the U.S. Senate  — claimed on Tuesday that social media bias against conservative users does not exist as she complained that publications like Fox News and The Daily Wire perform too well on the platform.
“Mr. Zuckerberg, for the second time in three weeks, you’ve been called before the Senate Committee so my Republican colleagues can beat you up over claims that your platforms are supposedly biased against conservatives. The fact of the matter is that these allegations are completely baseless.”
Hirono said that there was no evidence that social media platforms were biased against conservatives because Media Matters — a leftist organization that smears conservatives and advocates harming conservative news organizations with boycotts — says so.
“Everyone who has systematically looked at the content of social media from Media Matters to the CATO Institute to former Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) has found absolutely no evidence of anti-conservative bias and data from Crowd Tangle show that far-right content from the likes of Fox News, Ben Shapiro, and Dan Bongino dominates the daily top-10 most engaged pages on Facebook.”
“So all of these allegations about the fact that you hire, or all of your employees are left-of-center, is relevant of nothing, certainly not relevant on some sort of anti-conservative bias in terms of your content moderation,” Hirono claimed. “So, the way I see it, this hearing is a transparent effort by my Republican colleagues to work the refs and unfortunately, in my view, it’s working.”
Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/20/facebook-audit-conservative-bias-amid-criticism-1469287">reported</a> that the report authored by Kyl “doesn&#8217;t come to a definitive conclusion about whether bias exists on the platform, but appears designed to quell mounting accusations by GOP leaders.”
Hirono also painted a misleading picture of how conservative content performs on Facebook as she failed to mention that, according to <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2020/11/what-do-people-actually-see-on-facebook-in-the-us/">data</a> that Facebook have made public, mainstream media publications, which are typically left-of-center, dominate on Facebook in terms of the number of people who see their content. The data provided by Facebook shows that the following publications are included in Facebook’s top-10 ranking of publishers whose content reaches the most users on the platform: CNN, NBC News, The Washington Post, The New York Times, CBS News, USA Today, People, and NPR. The list also includes Fox News and the New York Post, which are typically more right-of-center publications.
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Far-left Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono (HI) claims that there is no bias against conservative users on social media because far-left Media Matters says so and complains leftist publications do not do as well as conservative publications. <a href="https://t.co/uZ0b6jKmeo">pic.twitter.com/uZ0b6jKmeo</a>
&mdash; Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1328776944628813825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This report has been updated to include additional information.

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Senator Hirono: Conservatives Don’t Face Discrimination On Social Media Because Media Matters Says So

Media Matters For America

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Social Media Bias

During the vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday evening, Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono (HI) cast her vote as a &#8220;hell, no&#8221; before appearing to storm out.
&#8220;I&#8217;d like to say, hell no,&#8221; Hirono says (see video clip below).
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-amy-coney-barrett-confirmed-to-supreme-court-with-support-from-majority-of-senators">The Daily Wire</a>, Barrett was confirmed by a majority of U.S. Senators with a glaring lack of bipartisanship coming from Senate Democrats.
&#8220;Barrett was confirmed on a 52-48 vote with only Republicans voting to confirm her. One Republican, Susan Collins (ME), voted against Barrett which comes as she is in the middle of a tough re-election campaign and her &#8216;no&#8217; vote would ultimately not alter the outcome,&#8221; The Daily Wire noted.
During the hearings for Barrett that preceded the vote on Monday, Hirono <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-reprises-kavanaugh-hearings-asks-amy-coney-barrett-if-shes-ever-sexually-assaulted-anyone">raised eyebrows</a> by asking the mother of seven if she ever engaged in the sexual assault or harassment of anyone, though the judge has never been accused of such misconduct. 
“Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors, or committed any physical or verbal harassment or assault of a sexual nature?” Hirono asked Barrett.
“No, Senator Hirono,” Barrett answered.
“Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement related to this kind of conduct?” questioned the Democrat. 
Again, Barrett said no. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-reprises-kavanaugh-hearings-asks-amy-coney-barrett-if-shes-ever-sexually-assaulted-anyone">According</a> to Fox News, Hirono said that she “asks those two questions of all nominees who come before committees on which she sits.”
Barrett has been under attack over her Catholic faith by the Left since her confirmation hearing to be a federal appeals judge in 2017.
For example, both Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Dirk Durbin (D-IL) were hit with charges of anti-Catholic bigotry for pressing Barrett about her personal religious views, most notably when Feinstein told the judge, “the dogma lives loudly within you.”
Following Barrett’s federal appeals judge hearings, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) raised concerns over attacks from Democrats on the judge’s faith: “I think some of the questioning that you have been subjected to today seems to miss some of these fundamental constitutional protections we all have,” the senator said at the time, <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/watch-dems-shamefully-grill-trump-judicial-nominee-over-her-religion/">according</a> to Law&amp;Crime.
The Washington Post, too, highlighted Barrett’s faith in an apparent attempt to paint her as an extremist unfit for the Supreme Court.
“Amy Coney Barrett, the judge at the top of Trump’s list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has said we should always remember that a ‘legal career is but a means to an end … and that end is building the Kingdom of God,’” one <a href="https://twitter.com/RonCharles/status/1307737438006243330">Washington Post reporter</a> tweeted.
“Trump’s likely RBG replacement, Amy Coney Barrett, is a Catholic extremist with 7 children who does not believe employers should be required to provide health care coverage for birth control,” a progressive activist said of the judge. “She wants the rest of American women to be stuck with her extreme lifestyle.”
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Stay classy, Mazie Hirono &#8230; <a href="https://t.co/ViobYBWNBb">pic.twitter.com/ViobYBWNBb</a>
&mdash; Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) <a href="https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1320879291740114947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing For Amy Coney Barrett To Be Supreme Court Justice

WATCH: Hirono Votes ‘Hell No’ On Confirming Barrett, Appears To Storm Out

Amy Coney Barrett

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) snapped at a reporter Thursday afternoon after she was confronted over the Democrats&#8217; double standard over the term &#8220;sexual preference,&#8221; which she made a big deal out of during the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
“I have no agenda,” Barrett said during the hearing. “I do want to be clear that I have never discriminated on the basis of sexual preference and would not discriminate on the basis of sexual preference.”
Hirono fired back at Barrett, claiming, “It is used by anti-LGBTQ activists to suggest that sexual orientation is a choice. It is not. Sexual orientation is a key part of a person’s identity.”
Barrett caved and immediately apologized, saying, “I certainly didn’t mean and would never mean to use a term that would cause any offense in the LGBTQ community. So, if I did, I greatly apologize for that, I simply meant to be referring to Obergefell&#8217;s holding with regard to same-sex marriage.”
The entire ordeal was so over the top that Merriam-Webster&#8217;s online dictionary quietly changed the meaning of the word following the hearing to claim that it was &#8220;offensive,&#8221; all because some Democratic Senators said that it was.
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As recently as last month, Webster’s Dictionary included a definition of “preference” as “orientation” or “sexual preference.” TODAY they changed it and added the word “offensive.&quot;
Insane &#8211; I just checked through Wayback Machine and it’s real. 
(via @ThorSvensonn &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/chadfelixg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chadfelixg</a>) <a href="https://t.co/oOq1SNtCP2">pic.twitter.com/oOq1SNtCP2</a>
&mdash; Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/1316223349719216128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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National Review reporter John McCormack caught up with Hirono late this week and pressed her over the feigned outrage from Democrats by pointing out that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has recently used the term and asking her if Biden should apologize.
Hirono refused to answer the question and, when repeatedly pressed, she snapped, &#8220;Oh, stop it. The world is in flames.&#8221;
Transcript of McCormack&#8217;s exchange with Hirono:
<blockquote>National Review: Senator, last week at the hearing you mentioned that you thought it was “offensive and outdated” when Amy Barrett used the [term] “sexual preference.” It turns out that Joe Biden said it in May. Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it in 2017. Some of your colleagues on the Judiciary Committee said it maybe in 2010, 2012. Do you stand by that criticism?
Mazie Hirono: Well, of course.
National Review: Do you think Joe Biden should apologize for saying that in May?
Mazie Hirono: Well, look, it’s a lesson learned for all of us. But when you’re going on the Supreme Court and you’ve been a judge, as one of my judge friends said, you should know what these words mean.
National Review: Should Joe Biden apologize, too, like Amy Coney Barrett did?
Mazie Hirono: Joe Biden is not up for the Supreme Court.
National Review: He’s up for the presidency. So, he shouldn’t apologize?
Mazie Hirono: People will decide.
National Review: You don’t want to call on him to apologize?
Mazie Hirono: Oh, stop it. The world is in flames.</blockquote>
On Twitter, McCormack highlighted the exchange as an example of Hirono&#8217;s &#8220;logic and principles.&#8221;
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The logic and principles of Senator Mazie Hirono: <a href="https://t.co/IVQI1sgA4f">https://t.co/IVQI1sgA4f</a> <a href="https://t.co/6Dh7HKnqgR">pic.twitter.com/6Dh7HKnqgR</a>
&mdash; John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) <a href="https://twitter.com/McCormackJohn/status/1319726920490229760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hirono Snaps When Confronted Over Democrat Double Standard On ‘Sexual Preference’: ‘World Is In Flames’

Joe Biden

Sexual Preferences

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) harkened back to now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s Supreme Court confirmation hearings Tuesday afternoon, asking judge Amy Coney Barrett whether she&#8217;d ever committed sexual assault.
Sen. Hirono, who turned up to the hearing sporting a face mask with photos of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was one of the final senators to question Barrett on Tuesday, the second day of Barrett&#8217;s Senate confirmation hearings. After delivering remarks on &#8220;ensure[ing] the fitness of nominees,&#8221; Hirono questioned whether Barrett had ever been accused of sexual impropriety or entered into an agreement to related to inappropriate sexual conduct.
&#8220;Citing a statement from Chief Justice John Roberts in 2017 in which he acknowledged that the judiciary &#8216;is not immune&#8217; from the problem of sexual misconduct, Hirono said it is her duty &#8216;to ensure the fitness of nominees&#8217; for positions that have lifetime appointments,&#8221; Fox News reported late Tuesday.
“Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors, or committed any physical or verbal harassment or assault of a sexual nature?” Hirono asked Barrett.
“No, Senator Hirono,” Barrett replied.
Hirono then asked Barrett, “Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement related to this kind of conduct?”
Barrett again said no.
The question raised eyebrows, particularly considering that, in the midst of Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation process, Senator Dianne Feinstein announced that she&#8217;d received a letter from an anonymous constituent detailing Dr. Christine Blasey Ford&#8217;s claim that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her during a beach party when the pair were in high school. Ford eventually went public with her allegations in an interview with The Washington Post.
Kavanaugh denied Ford&#8217;s allegations, which had no independent verification, and, in a special session of the Senate Judiciary Committee, related his side of the story under oath and refuted several other, less substantiated, allegations. He was eventually confirmed to the Supreme Court by a party-line vote.
The initial letter to Feinstein was a surprise to Kavanaugh&#8217;s team, and Hirono&#8217;s line of questioning left some commentators concerned that Hirono plans a similar sneak attack on Barrett.
&#8220;Hirono noted that she asks those two questions of all nominees who come before committees on which she sits,&#8221; Fox News said.
Hirono eventually went back to an extended diatribe on the subject of abortion legislation and Barrett&#8217;s use of the term &#8220;sexual preference&#8221; to refer to Supreme Court decisions concerning same-sex marriage and employment discrimination, letting the sexual assault question hang in the air.
Earlier in the day, Barrett said she expected a high level of scrutiny once her nomination to the Supreme Court was made official.
“I don’t think it’s any secret to any of you or to the American people that this is a really difficult, some might say excruciating, process,” Barrett said in a morning interaction with Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC). “And Jesse and I had a very brief amount of time to make a decision with momentous consequences for our family. We knew that our lives would be combed over for any negative detail, we knew that our face would be a caricature and we knew our family would be attacked.”

Dem Senator Reprises Kavanaugh Hearings, Asks Amy Coney Barrett If She’s Ever Sexually Assaulted Anyone

Brett Kavanaugh

Sexual Assault

Democrats are reportedly considering a plan to boycott upcoming Senate Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and at least two Democratic Senators &#8212; Hawaii&#8217;s Mazie Hirono and Connecticut&#8217;s Richard Blumenthal &#8212; say they will not meet with nominee Amy Coney Barrett because it would &#8220;legitimize&#8221; President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to kick off a nomination process just weeks from a presidential election.
<a href="https://www.chron.com/news/article/Democrats-debate-whether-to-engage-or-withdraw-15599222.php">The Houston Chronicle reports</a> that Democratic senators are &#8220;mapping out how they will wield their limited procedural weapons in the fight over President Donald Trump&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee&#8221; and are &#8220;grappling with a central question: How much legitimacy do they give his candidate?&#8221;
&#8220;With little power to actually derail Trump&#8217;s pick, Democrats are coming under considerable pressure from their activist base to use every tactic at their disposal to not just throw sand in the gears of the confirmation fight, but to portray the consideration of expected nominee Amy Coney Barrett as a farce that shouldn&#8217;t even occur,&#8221; the outlet notes.
Over the last week, Democrats have tried a variety of approaches, from attacking Republicans as &#8220;hypocrites&#8221; for nominating a new jurist to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg &#8212; even though at this point, Republicans control both the White House and the Senate and it is possible the president will shortly earn an additional term &#8212; to attacking Amy Coney Barrett for her large family, adopted children, and faith community.
Sunday morning, Democratic leaders tried again to redirect the argument, focusing instead on upcoming oral arguments questioning the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act scheduled to take place at the start of the Supreme Court&#8217;s next term.
Most Democrats &#8212; like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) &#8212; are relying on the latter argument to swing voters, but at least two Senators, Hirono and Blumenthal, told media Saturday that they have no plans to &#8220;legitimize&#8221; Coney Barrett and will not even accept a casual meeting with the nominee, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hirono-blumenthal-amy-coney-barrett">per Fox News</a>.
&#8220;If Judge Barrett’s views become law, hundreds of millions of Americans living w/pre-existing conditions would lose access to their health care. In the middle of a pandemic, rushing confirmation of an extreme jurist who will decimate health care is unconscionable,&#8221; Blumenthal said on Twitter. “I will refuse to treat this process as legitimate &amp; will not meet with Judge Amy Coney Barrett.&#8221;
Hirono, at least, left open the possibility of questioning Barrett during a Senate confirmation hearing: “I will not be meeting with her, I will take the opportunity to question her when she is under oath.&#8221;
After a contentious week, however, Republicans are unlikely to take Democrats&#8217; feelings into consideration. As of Sunday, the GOP has enough votes to pass Barrett out of committee and approve her nomination on the Senate floor without Democratic defections. Republicans can afford at least three defections from their own party before Vice President Mike Pence is forced to cast a tie-breaking vote.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/graham-says-barrett-hearings-will-begin-oct-12-lays-out-rough-timeline">The Daily Wire reported Saturday</a>, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says the Senate plans to bring Barrett&#8217;s nomination to the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 12.

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Democrats Considering ‘Boycott’ Of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings, Refuse To Meet With Amy Coney Barrett

Democratic Party

Richard Blumenthal

On Monday, Senator Ted Cruz, chairing a hearing titled, “Hearing on Protecting Free Speech and Preventing Violent Protests,” triggered Hawaii Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono as he slammed the seven Democratic senators who refused to condemn Antifa at the hearing.
At the end of the hearing, Hirono declared that Cruz was “not listening” and snapped, “I hope &#8230; we don&#8217;t have to listen to any more of your rhetorical speeches” before walking out. The move prompted Cruz to swipe back, “Well, I appreciate as always, [the] kind and uplifting words of Senator Hirono, and I would note that throughout her remarks, she still did not say a negative word about Antifa, nor has any Democrat here.”
Before that exchange (video below), Cruz noted, “It&#8217;s fairly striking that elected Democrats want to ignore the violence of Antifa; they want to ignore the violence on the Left and they just scream &#8216;White supremacist, white supremacist,&#8217; rather than condemn violence from wherever it is coming. The 277 injuries of federal law enforcement officers in Portland are coming from the Left. And not a single Democrat on this committee acknowledges that.”
In her next turn to speak, Hirono said, “Senator, I have to say, sometimes I don&#8217;t think you listen. How many times have I had to say that we all should be denouncing violent extremists of every stripe.”
Cruz interjected, “Does that include Antifa?”
Hirono continued: &#8220;By the way, the Republicans are constantly using – I have to say, you brought it up yourself, the deaths of these black police officers, Patrick Underwood and David Dorn, for making political points. And the fact that it was right-wing extremists who killed Officer Underwood, that seems to be lost in this argument. And now there are all these attacks about Black Lives Matter and what they&#8217;re saying. I mean, how many of us even think that defunding police departments should be taken literally? I mean, I certainly don&#8217;t.&#8221;
She added, “So, we have this pesky thing called freedom of speech. And I&#8217;d say that the people who support Black Lives Matter, and if they&#8217;re calling for various boycotts and all that, that&#8217;s called freedom of speech and that&#8217;s what this hearing&#8217;s title is. Protecting speech.”
Hirono avoided naming Antifa yet again: “So, all I can say is, look, we should all join hands in denouncing and whatever words you want to use about violent extremism of all stripes, and I think we can all agree on that. So to constantly accuse Democrats of not caring about that is really, I can only say that you aren’t listening.”
“So I hope this is the end of this hearing, Mr. Chairman, and that we don&#8217;t have to listen to any more of your rhetorical speeches,&#8221; said Hirono. &#8220;Thank you very much. I&#8217;m leaving.”
As Hirono got up to leave, Cruz said, “Well, I appreciate, as always, [the] kind and uplifting words of Senator Hirono, and I would also note that throughout her remarks, she still did not say a negative word about Antifa, nor has any Democrat here. They instead engage in a political game where they depend—&#8221; Cruz looked at Hirono as she stood up to leave and said, &#8220;You&#8217;re welcome to say something negative about Antifa right now.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that I’ve covered the subject quite well. You were not listening,&#8221; she replied before leaving the hearing.
&#8220;She declined to speak. So that is the position of the Democratic Party,&#8221; Cruz concluded. &#8220;I would note also that of the seven Democratic senators who spoke, not a one of them apologized for or denounced multiple Democrats calling law enforcement officers Nazis — ‘stormtroopers’ and ‘Gestapo’ — to be fair, I have not heard the word Nazi — but ‘stormtrooper’ was Nancy Pelosi and ‘Gestapo’ was another Democratic leader. That is less than helpful.”
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Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing On Protecting Speech By Stopping Anarchist Violence

WATCH: Mazie Hirono Walks Out When Cruz Hammers Home Dems Won’t Condemn Antifa

Antifa

Ted Cruz

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) claimed during an MSNBC interview on Monday afternoon that President Donald Trump&#8217;s base of supporters are &#8220;white supremacists.&#8221;
&#8220;We now have three crises that we’re having to deal with, and it’s a pandemic, we have an economic crisis, we have police brutality and systemic racism crisis,&#8221; Hirono said. &#8220;And so what’s happening is that really covering for the president and his failures is the operating principle for his enablers. &#8230; We should be dealing with the pandemic, with the opening of schools. You just did a perfect coverage on the concerns that everyone has about schools reopening.&#8221;
&#8220;We should be dealing with the economic crisis,&#8221; Hirono continued. &#8220;And we should be dealing with the racism that is in our country to which the president speaks to because he has a base of supporters who are very anti-immigrant and white supremacists,” Hirono said. “That’s who, that’s the, a lot of his base and that’s who he speaks to so the divisiveness continues. So, we should be focusing on things that we need to focus on.&#8221;
The claim received no pushback from MSNBC host Chris Jansing.
WATCH:
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Here is a Democrat Senator literally calling Trump supporters white supremacists. <a href="https://t.co/mLYkIZrbJc">https://t.co/mLYkIZrbJc</a>
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Hirono has a history of making outlandish comments related to the president and falsely claimed after the Senate acquitted him during his impeachment trial that he was not really acquitted.
“The Senate has clearly spoken now, the president was acquitted,” CNN host Wolf Blitzer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-senator-mazie-hirono-trump-not-acquitted-cnn-rips-her-she-doubles-down">said</a> to Hirono in February after the acquittal. “Do you think your–”
“No! Wolf (laughs), wasn’t acquitted,” Hirono falsely claimed. “It was a rigged trial. You don’t get acquitted when you don’t even get to call witnesses or relevant witnesses or have the documents because the president stone walled all efforts on the part of the House to get the information they requested.”
“So, there you go,” Hirono continued. “It was a rigged trial, he can run around saying he was acquitted but you don’t get acquitted in a rigged trial.”
“Well, I just want to point out Senator, there was a roll call, guilty or not guilty, not guilty was the majority and the Chief Justice of the United States announced that he was acquitted, that he was not guilty,” Blitzer responded.
“But the American public knows that it was a rigged trial,” Hirono claimed without evidence. “So, okay you’re found not guilty in a rigged trial. I don’t think that they think this was all kosher, not it wasn’t. So, meanwhile you have the president crowing about it, which is totally expected, and now it’s anything goes for this president and this administration and all his enablers.”
Prior to the Senate voting to acquit the president, Hirono <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-mazie-hirono-i-dont-care-about-legal-constitutional-defenses-trump-team-has">said</a> on MSNBC, “I don&#8217;t care what kind of nice, little, legal, Constitutional defenses that they came up with.”
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US-POLITICS-IMPEACHMENT

Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono On Trump’s Base Of Supporters: They Are ‘White Supremacists’

Racism

Perennially misinformed Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) tried to stop an anti-infanticide bill in the senate on Tuesday by making two false statements. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) quickly stepped in to correct her.
First, Hirono pointed out that infanticide is already illegal in America and claimed the bill was “a solution to a problem that does not exist,” even though the bill addresses instances where a baby is aborted but survives and left to die. Second, Hirono claimed Republicans are actually trying to place restrictions on women’s ability to choose abortion, The Blaze’s Nate Madden <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/democratic-senator-calls-anti-infanticide-bill-a-solution-to-a-problem-that-does-not-exist-ben-sasse-quickly-corrects-her">reported</a>.
&#8220;No one here is in favor of infanticide; no one here is in favor of killing or harming infants,&#8221; Hirono said in prepared remarks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. &#8220;Infanticide is a crime, and it always has been.&#8221;
As Madden reported, Hirono brought up a 2002 law that would make it illegal to kill an infant because infants are recognized as legal persons with protections.
&#8220;So, if infanticide is already illegal in this country, then why are we here? Why are my Senate Republican colleagues pushing so hard for this bill?&#8221; Hirono said during the hearing. &#8220;And the answer is simple: This bill is the latest in a decades-long effort by Republicans aiming to take control of women&#8217;s bodies and prevent us from exercising our constitutional right to make personal decisions which include abortion in this country.&#8221;
She added that the bill &#8220;offers a solution to a problem that does not exist.&#8221;
&#8220;I heard that the state has an interest in the unborn child,&#8221; Hirono said. &#8220;I thought the state also has an interest in women having control over our own bodies.&#8221;
Sasse, chairman of the hearing and sponsor of the Born-Alive bill, corrected Hirono’s claims.
&#8220;Infanticide is indeed illegal in the U.S., and yet in half of the states, there is no criminalization of walking away from the baby and allowing it to die by exposure,&#8221; Sasse said. &#8220;There&#8217;s an active-passive distinction and a state-federal distinction which are both pretty fundamental.&#8221;
As Madden reported, earlier in the hearing Patrina Mosley of the Family Research Council explained that just 26 states have bills that protect infants who survived botched abortions. The 2002 bill cited by Hirono, Madden explained, “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/life/report/the-necessity-the-born-alive-abortion-survivors-protection-act">didn&#8217;t specify what the obligations to care for them were</a> or <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/01/born-alive-abortion-survivors-protection-act-congress-must-pass-it-now/">impose penalties</a> for not doing so.”
Further, the bill sponsored by Sasse includes no new restrictions on abortions whatsoever. It only states that if a baby survives and abortion attempt, medical professionals must give him or her “the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence” that they would “any other child born alive at the same gestational age.&#8221;
Hirono has mislead the public about this bill for more than a year. In March 2019, after the bill failed to pass the senate, Hirono made multiple false claims” about the legislation, as The Daily Wire’s Frank Camp <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-mazie-hironos-multiple-false-claims-about-anti-frank-camp">reported</a>. At the time, she made the two false statements she reiterated in Tuesday’s hearing, but also made a nonsensical claim about comforting an unwanted child.
“…doctors will be required to resuscitate infants born with fatal conditions, even if the parents did not want these measures that could prolong their infant’s suffering and instead wanted to spend the limited time they had with their baby comforting their child and holding them close,” Hirono claimed.
As Camp wrote:
<blockquote>This makes no sense. The Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act mandates care for infants born following failed abortions. An abortion, if performed properly, results in the termination of a fetus. Why would a woman spend time “comforting” a deceased fetus after the she underwent a procedure that was specifically intended to end its life?</blockquote>

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