It's also fundamentally disqualifying. It should be disqualifying for any nominee to fail to answer that basic question in a way that respects law enforcement. Judge Anna St. John was one of those nominees who failed to answer truthfully and accurately when she was before our committee as a nominee for the district court. January 6, rioter Jared Wise, who had urged the mob to kill police officers. You scrubbed press releases about the Jan. 6 prosecution and called the releases partisan propaganda. (00:14–00:28)
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Asserts that Judge Anna St. John did not answer truthfully and accurately during her nomination hearing.
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