CNN Lets Judicial Crisis Network Chief Counsel Flip-Flop And Lie About Garland Record
Carrie Severino: Judge Merrick Garland Is Just “A Reliable Liberal Vote” For Obama To “Cement” A Liberal Majority
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On CNN's CNN Newsroom, Carrie Severino, chief counsel for the discredited conservative legal group Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), attacked President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Merrick Garland. Severino misrepresented Garland's record and argued that Garland was nominated because of “his decisions on things like the Second Amendment, which he's hostile to, [and] on deference to administrative agencies,” despite having called him “the best scenario” for an Obama nominee in 2010. JCN has launched a "seven figure" campaign urging senators to block any appointment by President Obama to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. From the March 16 episode of CNN's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin: