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Did Republicans Treat Jackson Worse Than Democrats Treated Kavanaugh?
In the opinion of the Washington Post editorial board, yes. It’s paywalled, but here’s the highlights.
A woman credibly accused Mr. Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Democrats rightly asked the committee to investigate. After a superficial FBI review, Republicans pressed forward his nomination. In the end, it was Mr. Kavanaugh who behaved intemperately, personally attacking Democratic senators and revealing partisan instincts that raised questions about his commitment to impartiality.
So, their starting point is a lie; his accuser was not credible. And they don’t mention the nonstop, Democrat-run media smear campaign against Kavanaugh that alleged, among other things, that Justice Kavanaugh ran a high school rape gang. They also don’t mention angry leftist protesters (they weren’t called “domestic terrorists” back then because reasons) breaching the capitol and disrupting the proceedings and occupying senate offices during the proceedings.
By contrast, Republicans have smeared Judge Jackson based on obvious distortions of her record and the law. Mr. Graham and others painted her as a friend of child pornographers, despite the fact that her sentences in their cases reflect the judicial mainstream.
False, Republicans have not “distorted” her record they have cited her record. The Democrat/Washington Post defense here is literally “the law punishes child pornographers too harshly so, as a judge, she chose to give child pornographers lighter sentences, which is good.”
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) used much of her time assailing those concerned about transgender people. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) attacked Judge Jackson for sitting on the board of Georgetown Day School, a D.C. private school, because he disapproves of its anti-racism curriculum, which Judge Jackson has never endorsed, let alone relied upon in a ruling.
Senator Blackburn questioned the nominee on her views on Critical Race Theory, which Democrats have told us repeatedly is taught in law schools and is a question likely to come before the court. It is a far more legitimate line of questioning than Senator Sheldon Whiteclub’s demand to investigate the meaning of the word “boof.”
The Washington Post and the Democrats (But I repeat myself) are feigning outrage over a respectful and routine SCOTUS hearing in order to dishonestly try to conflate the GOP behavior to their own obnoxiousness during Kavanaugh and Comey Barrett hearings.
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The confirmation of KBJ is not nearly as bad in that the Dems lied about Kavanaugh. But I don’t think that the GOP senators covered themselves in glory. I would compare this more to the confirmation of Justice Samuel Alito, with nasty pointed questions and grandstanding.
I read your headline question and laughed.
I don’t know the year, the town, or anyone else who was there but this totally happened and it was definitely him. Yeah, maybe not the most credible.
Also, I didn’t even come up with the accusation until Kavanaugh was a prominent public figure; I deleted all my social media before I made the accusation, and my own family and friends dispute my account.
Blazing-Fraud had all the credibility of Mitt Romney claiming to be “severely conservative.”
This is a joke right?
Not as much of one as the first comment.
I expected better from the Republicans. When she announced that she couldn’t possibly define what a woman is due to not being a biologist, she should have been asked if that meant that she would recuse herself from all sexual discrimination cases.
It’s always been the same grandstanding on both sides of every confirmation hearing. Nothing new here.
The notion that Jackson was treated worse than Kavanaugh is utterly absurd. It reminds me that opinions are like buttholes…everyone has one and most of them stink.
The answer to the question in the headline is easily, objectively, and unequivocally, “no”.
Until the Republicans start bringing up wild stories about her sex life as a 16-year old, I think we can confidently say the Dems were far worse to Kavanaugh. Period.
I wish they would drag her through the mud. I’d like to see questioning about being a racial quota, and ask for her opinion if Biden broke the law by announcing he would only consider a specific race and gender for the nomination. Then I’d follow that up by asking why – if she can’t define what is a woman – did Biden nominate her as his choice of black woman?
And every Republican should have marching orders to vote no, in response to the treatment Gorsuch, Barrett, and kavanaugh received- regardless of her “performance “.
Not mine! Says me!
First judge in history that gets to say she doesn’t have a judicial philosophy and instead relies on a “methodology”. She’s a liar.
This garbage about not being able to define woman doesn’t make any sense on any level if you’re going to be a judge.
The other thing I heard was, it’s a disaster that she won’t use the legal term “alien”.
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I highly recommend that everybody listen to the Hugh Hewitt long interview of Bill Barr.
Just to be super clear Joel Pollack at Breitbart says this is all wrong but he does end up calling her a liar. The first lawyer I heard this from was pretty persuasive, but I’m not the final word on any of this.
I think either way, she’s trying to pitch herself as a constitutionalist when she isn’t.
The other thing she reportedly said was, she didn’t know anything about the living Constitution concept.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/what-judge-jackson-exposed-about-the-legal-left
This is gaslighting by the Washington Post at its worst. The Kavanaugh scorched earth campaign was when I realized the MSM and progressive Democrats are our enemy. There is no point in trying to reason with the mob, pitchforks in hand. I hate being this cynical. But that’s where I’m at.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/24/pollak-ketanji-brown-jackson-proves-conservatives-have-won-the-legal-argument/
Glad your eyes are open.
Thank you for your kind words and sense of generosity.
Yes. TV cameras are a mind-altering substance for senators, regardless of political party. Seemingly decent people will puff up their chests and become total asses when they have the chance to show their constituents what a tough guy they are on television. The point is not to seek useful answers. It is simply to put on a show of dominance.
Name one or two things I should be concerned about that the GOP Senators did.
For it to be worse than what was done to Kavanaugh, they would have had to spend the entire hearing grilling her on her time as a whore when she was 16. One after another, questioning, berating and chastising her for her whoredom. That would about be even.
Don’t forget to accuse her of a cocaine addiction.
Was that the rapist judge the GOP put on the court? Of course they were upset. He was a known rapist.
Same guy, different show. 11 minutes. Personally I find this pretty compelling. And I have never heard of him before, but he’s really good.
https://rumble.com/vygt7q-ketanji-brown-disqualifies-herself.-ken-klukowski-with-sebastian-gorka-on-a.html
Some may find this interesting