GOP Sen. John Cornyn Grills Biden Nominee About Article – Unaware It Was Satire
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) made a quick retreat after an attempted gotcha question during a hearing for Assistant Attorney General nominee Kristen Clarke. Cornyn asked Clarke about an article she wrote while still a student at Harvard, unaware the article was satire. “Miss Clarke, Martin Luther King famously said that he had a dream of the day when his children would be known by the content of their character and not the color of their skin,” Cornyn said to Clarke, a life-long civil rights advocate. “Absolutely, Senator,” Clarke replied. “Well, maybe there’s a misprint, but I’m sure you can cl...