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I ran an electronic test department for over twenty years and those that I hired reflected on me. Get a load of Trump's nominee to a court bench! It is just down right amazing!

The Alarming Twitter Timeline of Trump Nominee Kara Westercamp

Personal loyalty to Trump is the most important qualification for aspiring Trump judges. But rarely has a nominee auditioned this publicly, or with this many hashtags.

Balls & Strikes

By Jay Willis

March 12, 2026

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump nominated Kara Westercamp, a lawyer in the White House Counsel’s office, for a life-tenured judgeship on the U.S. Court of International Trade. On Truth Social, Trump called Westercamp a “very experienced Trade Lawyer” who “knows the Wisdom and Courage to protect the American People,” and “will always put America First.” 

Westercamp would indeed appear to bring some practical experience to the job: Prior to joining the White House Counsel’s office, she spent a decade at the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Department of Justice, where she regularly tried cases before the Court of International Trade, according to her LinkedIn profile. The fact that Trump now hopes to place Westercamp, currently serving as one of his in-house attorneys, on a body that is deeply involved in adjudicating the legal challenges to his tariffs agenda is, I am sure, a coincidence.

I see a "but" coming...

Since Trump began his second term in the White House, personal fealty to him has been the most important qualification for ambitious conservative lawyers who aspire to seats on the federal bench. Rarely, however, has a Trump nominee auditioned for a job quite so explicitly, in such a public manner, over so many years, with so many hashtags.

I see why Trump likes her, she puts loyalty ahead of the Constitution!

Reuters reported that,

Senator Dick Durbin, the panel's top Democrat, pressed Westercamp on whether she would like ​to apologize for her "prolific, inflammatory" social media posts in which she attacked various senators including Republicans ​like Senator Mitch McConnell, who she referred to as "Cocaine Mitch."

Westercamp, a trade lawyer, apologized and said she made those posts in her personal capacity while working at the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Durbin ⁠and other Democrats pressed Westercamp on other social media posts in which they said she suggested law enforcement or Antifa was complicit in the violence that occurred during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, when thousands of Trump supporters mounted an unsuccessful attempt to overturn Trump's ​2020 electoral defeat.

Westercamp said ​she condemned all violence ⁠that occurred that day and regretted her social media posts.

Yeah, you apologize now, now that you got called out on it!

You know if hire any people like those Trump is hiring I would have been fired!

Listen to Sen. Durbin...