Warning to the GOP: Biden nominee will cause more problems for the State Department
Hudson Crozier
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will consider Margaret Taylor for the position of legal adviser at the State Department. A watchdog report indicates that her nomination is President Joe Biden’s attempt to further politicize the agency in his favor. Her history of political commentary revolves around attacking former President Donald Trump over nothing while defending the worst abuses of Democrats and the Left.
For example, Taylor praised the now-disgraced Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) for pushing the hoax that Trump colluded with Russia to become president. She described the theory, which was based on a corrupt FBI investigation and a debunked report from Hillary Clinton’s campaign, as “exactly what happened in the 2016 election.”
Taylor also claimed there was no “evidence of significant disorder in” Seattle, Washington during the leftist “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” protest in 2020. While reports came out of looting, arson, shootings, and deaths, her loudest complaint was that Trump urged governors to “dominate” the streets with police and threatened federal action to regain control of Seattle’s police precinct. She also had a problem with the “divisive and escalatory rhetoric” of any congressional Republican who called the Black Lives Matter riots a serious problem.
In March 2020, Taylor even condemned the Trump administration for proposing to deport asylum seekers with COVID-19. Outraged that America wasn’t prioritizing noncitizens more than citizens under lockdowns, she called it “cruel” to make them wait outside the border instead of letting them cross illegally.
Biden’s State Department has enough integrity-related issues. Secretary of State Antony Blinken helped Biden win the presidency by encouraging the intelligence community to discredit factual reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Blinken also faces accusations of false testimony for suggesting to Congress that he never communicated with the first son via email when, in fact, he did.
The department is also under scrutiny for helping organizations and universities punish online speech that liberals consider “misinformation” or “disinformation.” It has not only funded but directly participated in these activities, running afoul of its statutory authority and getting wrapped up in a First Amendment lawsuit. To top it all off, the department failed to produce records for Congress about its funding of censorship in May. Oversight is hard in general because Biden has not nominated an inspector general after more than two years in office.
As a legal adviser, Taylor would oversee hundreds of staff and report directly to Blinken. She would have influence over legislative work, regulation, litigation, and “all legal issues” facing the department, according to its website. That power does not belong to someone who cannot take off her partisan blinders for one moment and look at important government matters objectively.
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There is a reason this is all worth pointing out. Senate Republicans helped confirm many bureaucrats whom they now understandably see as corrupt or incompetent. These include Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom Trump appointed. In this case, if the GOP does not take obvious signs that a nominee will work against conservative interests, we have a sorry excuse for a conservative party.
Hudson Crozier is a summer 2023 Washington Examiner fellow.