Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, speaking on MS NOW's The Weekend, says he nominated Scott Colom to President Biden for a federal judgeship and Cindy Hyde-Smith denied him. Thompson notes Colom is a third-term district attorney who beat a 28-year incumbent. He calls Colom's Senate race lead over Hyde-Smith "poetic justice."
The receipt
- Who
- Rep. Bennie Thompson
- Where
- interview - MS NOW, The Weekend
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- 56 seconds, unedited within the cut
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Well, look in the south, I take a little credit for Scott Cologne. He went through something that we have in partnership with the NAACP cost the Mississippi Black Leadership Institute. Scott was one of our first graduates. We convinced Scott to run for district attorney. He's a third turn district attorney. He beat an incumbent who who had been there 28 years. I nominated him for federal judgeship to President Biden and Cindy Hyde Smith denied him that right to be a federal judge. And so it's poetic justice that here we are at this moment, having someone who's now on the cusp of becoming a United States Senator who was denied the right to be a federal judge and now he's defeating that person.
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