Kenneth Lee, who has been nominated to serve on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, came under fire for decades-old writings on race, HIV and LGBTQ issues. - NBCOUT
After waiting months to question Kenneth Lee, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday wasted no time confronting Lee about decades-old writings on race, HIV and LGBTQ issues.
Feinstein questioned Lee about an article he wrote in 1994 in which he claimed that"nine out of 10 people with AIDS are gay or drug users.” Lee expressed regret and embarrassment over the article and said his views have changed. He noted that at 18 he “didn’t know science.” “Mr. Lee’s repeated failure to provide responsive materials to this committee is a breach of the committee’s standards and processes — it is not a partisan issue,” they wrote in a joint statement this week.
Lee also stirred controversy with op-eds about race and gender. In a 1993 article, he said, “Cries of racism often stem from isolated incidents or from unreliable studies based on statistical chicanery.” In that same article, he claimed “charges of sexism often amount to nothing but irrelevant pouting.
“But as a professional, Ken has earned praise and admiration from across the political spectrum because he is a brilliant lawyer whose commitment to public service demonstrates that he is just the kind of person who should be serving on the Ninth Circuit,” Severino added.
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