Today, Rebecca Taibleson had her confirmation hearing. Despite some opposition from conservative groups, I did not see any indication that a single Republican Senator would oppose her nomination. She should be confirmed easily. Though, following up on my post yesterday about Rebecca's faith, I did want to flag one exchange with Senator Cruz that the WSJ picked up:
"I have had people reach out to me on this nomination more than any other judicial nomination in the second Trump term," Sen. Ted Cruz said Wednesday at a hearing for Ms. Taibleson, a 42-year-old Wisconsin federal prosecutor. The anxieties on the right, Mr. Cruz added, "boil down to a concern that you're secretly a closet liberal, and that you'd be an activist on the bench."
Ms. Taibleson replied ably. "I was raised by a very conservative law professor," she said. "It has stuck." (Her father is George Mason University's Michael Krauss.) Growing up, "it felt like we were the only conservatives at our Jewish day school in the 1990s," she added. "Especially back then, if you were Jewish and conservative, you had to really mean it, and we did."
Sen. Cruz gave Taibleson an opportunity to respond to her critics. I've been at this for a while and I don't think I've ever seen an answer quite like it. pic.twitter.com/OKDjduzDlH
— Mike Fragoso (@mike_frags) September 17, 2025
