Ex-Congressman, Judicial Pick Stumbles on Free Speech Question

A former congressman became the latest Biden judicial nominee to struggle with a constitutional law question at a Senate confirmation hearing.

Anthony Brindisi, nominated for the Syracuse-based Northern District of New York, was unable to satisfy Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) when asked on Wednesday whether “government has the right to free speech.”

Brindisi started to frame an answer around individual free speech rights before later saying he hadn’t had a case on government speech in “my 20 years of litigating civil litigation matters” and more than two years as a state judge.

Kennedy is known to pose questions at Judiciary ...