Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri raked a judicial nominee over the coals on April 27, for good reason. Nancy Abudu, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, shouldn’t be a federal judge.

Hawley’s harshest questioning concerned the organization for which Abudu has worked since 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is a disgraceful organization, and he wondered why she would choose to be affiliated with it. He cited not just conservatives but very liberal activists and journalists repeatedly referring to the SPLC as a “fraud,” with one describing it “collectively” as “one of the greatest frauds in American life.”