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Deep dive: Neomi Rao — Trump's pick for a powerful federal judgeship and a reported SCOTUS contender — wrote op-eds in college and shortly after using inflammatory language at times to talk about race, affirmative action, date rape, and LGBT issues buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
As a Yale undergrad in the mid-90s, Rao described race as a "hot, money-making issue,” affirmative action as the “anointed dragon of liberal excess,” welfare as being for “for the indigent and lazy," and LGBT issues as part of “trendy” political movements buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
On date rape, Rao wrote that men who rape women should be prosecuted, but that if a woman “drinks to the point where she can no longer choose, well, getting to that point was part of her choice" and that women bear some "moral responsibility" buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
DOJ spox on Rao: "The views she expressed a quarter century ago as a college student writing for her student newspaper were intentionally provocative, designed to raise questions and push back against liberal elitism that dominated her campus at the time" buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Whether, and to what extent, a judicial nominee's college writings should matter has been a subject of some debate. Undergrad articles, some with similar language as Rao's, ended up becoming a flashpoint in Ryan Bounds' unsuccessful 9th Circuit nomination buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
