Ketanji Brown Jackson's moment in history will not be disrupted by lies
Four days of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson kicked off Monday, and when the throat-clearing of Day 1 concluded, her opponents seemed less interested in a thorough examination of her record than searching for ways to smear it.record speaks for itself, which is a problem for Judge Jackson’s critics.
The 11 Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee took umbrage at her defense of detainees at the legal black hole known as Guantanamo, which the RNC considers “advocacy for terrorists” –her brother was serving in Iraq at the time, so that is especially insulting -- and “going beyond just giving them a competent defense.”flagged that as a pitifully anti-American sentiment.
Her critics also call her the product of a dark money political effort, which Sen. John Cornyn says is led by “pro-abortion groups that poured millions” into the campaign for her nomination. That’s projection. The Supreme Court’s record-low approval is based on the public assessment that it has become the judicial arm of the hard-right Federalist Society. As
put it, “Hundreds of millions of dollars in right wing dark money built the current court majority. And it still signals its wishes through flotillas of dark money front groups fronting as amici curiae.”claim that Jackson is soft on crime doesn’t mesh with the endorsements she has received from police organizations throughout the country, including theWatch for Oscar-winning performance art by GOP senators picking at Judge Jackson’s cloak. They know that she’s qualified.
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