For the third consecutive day, Republicans condescended to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, interrupted her countless times, and asking racist questions, repeatedly going over their allotted time to speak. They also used the hearings to rehabilitate a rapist. And because Democrats are chronically spineless, they did very little to stop the day-long circus. The seditious lawmakers were given free reign to craft their racist and sexist (and jaw-droppingly stupid) questions as auditions for airing on the Fox Propaganda Network. They also spoke directly to the QAnon Cult.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham interrupted Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson 20+ times as she answered his questions. pic.twitter.com/5f2qJC4pBY
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) March 23, 2022
We counted. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) interrupted Ketanji Brown Jackson at least 15 times in 20 minutes. pic.twitter.com/19PFhAyPCC
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) March 23, 2022
That puzzling look you give when you realize you are being questioned by one of the most sporadic-minded Senators in Congress. “Can you provide the definition of woman.” Dumb question. Marsha Blackburn consistently interrupted Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. pic.twitter.com/DwyI7Q7PlQ
— silverprincess💛 (@marsha_vivinate) March 23, 2022
Ben Sasse moments after Ted Cruz throws a performative tantrum that was tailormade for Hannity: "I think we should recognize that the jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities." pic.twitter.com/3YqBgrrXNR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 23, 2022
it plays well on Fox News, which is the only thing that matters to him. He'll go on Hannity tonight and be treated like a hero for owning so many libs.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 23, 2022
Can confirm this. He was searching twitter for his name, this was right after his exchange with Chairman Durbin. https://t.co/pd7W6SHVPV pic.twitter.com/AKXoe4CYKK
— Kent Nishimura (西村賢一) (@kentnish) March 23, 2022
this is why Republicans throw performative tantrums at hearings -- to star in these clips of them owning libs for Hannity pic.twitter.com/4Mwnhh8CjO
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 23, 2022
One way that you know this is a smear job than a serious inquiry is they keep asking the same question, multiple times, as they did the day before. It’s not about the answer, it’s about creating an association between Jackson and pedophilia. https://t.co/rn1p5myI9H
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) March 23, 2022
Booker reads part of the National Review's piece debunking Hawley's child porn smears, including the part that characterizes them as "meritless to the point of demagoguery."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 23, 2022
"This is a new low," Booker says. pic.twitter.com/dRQ9c954tj
Also, keep in mind that Graham has already voted to confirm Jackson to the federal bench twice before, including just last year. https://t.co/Oa9YEl8gwt
— John Whitehouse+ (@existentialfish) March 23, 2022
On Monday, Lindsey Graham vowed Jackson's hearing wouldn't be a circus. Each of the next two days he had ugly meltdowns and left in a huff. https://t.co/6MXlYhh55R https://t.co/BcE4jbcF1Q
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 23, 2022
In which a Supreme Court nominee schools her inquisitor: https://t.co/QCn6VEaBbi
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) March 23, 2022
Chris Hayes, MSNBC, March 22-23, 2022:
The hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first black woman ever nominated to the Supreme Court in over 200 years of this country's history, has been stomach-churning. We knew going in that her race and gender would be an issue for some Republicans. But I have to say I have been taken aback by the facially racist nature of much of the questioning Judge Jackson faced. And I say "racist" because there is no other way to accurately describe it. . . .
Yesterday Jackson repeatedly faced a line of questioning that assumed she was soft on crime or sympathetic to criminals or maybe even likes crime. And the only reason I can determine is that it plays on the assumption that a black person is inherently associated with criminality in some way, which is, of course, racist -- one of the oldest, most pernicious and dangerous racist tropes in America.
She was also asked multiple times to disown or disavow the views of other black public intellectuals -- just other people who also happen to be black, who have ideas about the country. . . .
[During a discussion with two panelists] Let me also say, as the one white person here, the whole thing is frankly racist. It's obviously the case. The subtext here is you're a black woman. Ergo, you must prove that you are not soft on crime and you also must disown and distance yourself from other black people who say other things, because they are black, and if you're too associated with that, then your blackness is going to get in the way of your neutrality, which is fixed as this objective white feature. . . . You are suspect in your neutrality as a judge because you are not white.
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