President Joe Biden’s nominee to fill a vacancy on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals is a longtime diversity trainer who has argued for curtailing the First Amendment and conducted training sessions that say “microaggressions” can “kill you.”
Maria Araujo Kahn, an associate justice on Connecticut’s State Supreme Court flirted with a 2020 opinion that criminalized speech that offends “oppressed” groups. According to her Senate Judiciary questionnaire, she has presented diversity trainings and presentations at least 12 times to lawyers throughout the country since 2013.
Participants at Fordham Law School were directed to watch the animated video “How Microaggressions are Like Mosquito Bites,” which shows a mosquito-sized man telling a college student of dark hues to “try a less difficult major” before being prepared for the training.
A voice-over states that “some mosquitoes have truly dangerous diseases that can ruin your life for years.” Other mosquitoes can carry strains that could even kill you.
The video cuts to a mosquito with a gun beside a corpse. “I felt…
