Will Republicans be waging there usual political throwdown against any Democrat or Progressive as ‘left-wing nuts’?
The New York Times looks at the questioning of a Black Woman who in all likeleyhood will be the next high court justice…
Republican US Senator’s , taking a cue, from Donald Trump it would seem , and are making up falsehood’s to attach to the judge they gladly confirmed for the Federal bench a year ago…
The Senators have managed to enoucuate their fears about race, sexual oration , abortion and child sexual abusers jail terms…
These concerns are bound to come up across the country from Republicans trying to define Democrats for the November elections …
As they begin questioning Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday, Republican senators are previewing many of the attack lines their party plans to use in the midterm congressional elections to portray Democrats as extremists.
The televised hearings serve as a high-profile opportunity for Republicans to air cultural grievances that motivate their hard-right base, such as antiracism efforts and transgender rights, as they work to tarnish Judge Jackson in the eyes of the public and generate enthusiasm among voters outraged at her likely elevation to the court.
In a release on Monday morning, just as the hearings were beginning, the Republican National Committee painted Judge Jackson as a radical left-wing activist and proselytizer of critical race theory. The term refers to a field of legal study that examines how racism can be embedded in laws and institutions, but has been appropriated by the right as a way to disparagingly describe any discussion of structural racism.
The R.N.C. also blasted Judge Jackson for praising The 1619 Project, a series of essays in The New York Times Magazine that reframed the country’s history by putting the consequences of slavery at the center of the national narrative. The project, which was praised by some historians and expanded into a curriculum and best-selling book, has been broadly dismissed by Republicans as “brainwashing,” and G.O.P. state legislatures have tried to penalize schools that teach it…..
Manu Raju
@mkraju
“Can you provide a definition for the word, woman?” Blackburn asks. Jackson: “Can I provide a definition? No, I can’t.”
Blackburn: “You can’t?”
Jackson: “Not in this context – I’m not a biologist. … In my work as a judge what I do is I address disputes.”
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Jules
@jmreycroft
Replying to
@mkraju
@MarshaBlackburn
Did you ask this question of Amy Coney Barrett? Or Kavanagh? What is your definition of ‘woman’?
Ana Navarro-Cárdenas
@ananavarro
I’ve watched hours of #KetanjiBrownJackson hearings. Yes, Republicans have asked loaded, barbed questions, some of rather ridiculous. But I don’t feel they’ve made so much as a dent on her. She’s maintained her composure, shown judicial temperament and answered substantially.
I am also satisfied with Brown Jackson’s performance. She explains
Her positions in detail to Republicans who appear to deliberately take her statements out of context.
And compare her judicial
temperament to justice Kavenough!
So am I and my wife…..
She takes no BS from the GOPer’s….
Again?
She WAS confirmed to he curret job a year or so ago with a nice margin….
She’ll get the job….
The crying about Kavanaugh who WAS a mess just makes the GOPer’s look Trumpish….
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McConnell get in his knocks after praising Brown Jackson …..
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s performance at her confirmation hearing for providing “evasive and unclear” answers and accused her of secretly supporting calls to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
While McConnell previously praised Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, as “a sharp lawyer with an impressive resume,” he turned notably more critical on Wednesday…
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The GOPer’s KNOW she’s getting the job so your point is well taken…
They can throw down at her and then crow about how they helpe4d America get its first Black High Court judge….
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) downplayed the attacks members of his own party have leveled against President Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court during the first days of her Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
“It struck me that it was off course, meaning the attacks were off course that came from some,” Romney told the Washington Post on Tuesday. “And there is no ‘there’ there.”…
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