
There’s a new loyalty test for government offices, and it isn’t “respect the Constitution.” This week, senators asked three Trump judicial nominees the most basic, courtroom-grade question: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election? But that sent the three into verbal yoga.
At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Dec. 17, Sen. Richard Blumenthal pressed three Trump district-court nominees on a simple set of facts about the 2020 election. But Judge Megan Blair Benton, DOJ official Brian Charles Lea, and Indiana trial attorney Justin R. Olson all sat there like scaredy cats.