[FreeBeacon] One of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees is faltering after she flip-flopped over a past statement about police shootings.
Nusrat Choudhury
| ...first gen. Bangladeshi-American from Chicago, educated in Columbia, Princeton, and Yale, she approaches the bench after a career as an ACLU lawyer... |
, Biden's pick for a New York City federal trial court, allegedly claimed during a 2015 panel that police shoot unarmed black people every day in the United States. Choudhury defended the statement in a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in April. But on May 11, Choudhury told the committee she had never made such a statement.
"I did not make this statement. I strongly disavow this statement, and I regret not disavowing this statement during my hearing," Choudhury wrote in a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are pushing for a second hearing to question Choudhury's about-face, which they say poses problems for future nominations.
"If nominees are allowed to testify one way before the Judiciary Committee and then send a letter reversing themselves, it would be a new level of deterioration for the nominations process," committee Republicans wrote in a letter to committee chair Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), which the Free Beacon obtained.
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