Posted on 03/20/2022 7:51:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday opens a week of high-profile confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in its 233-year history.
While Democrats have the votes to confirm President Joe Biden's high court nominee on their own, the hearings could prove critical to the White House goal of securing at least some Republican support and shoring up the court's credibility.
The spotlight on a historic nominee -- and the court itself during such a consequential term of cases -- is also an opportunity for both political parties to appeal to key voting constituencies ahead of the midterm campaign season.
Jackson, 51, who currently sits on the nation's second most powerful court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, will face questions from the committee's 11 Republicans and 11 Democrats over two days, starting Tuesday.
Republicans have signaled a desire to scrutinize the substance of Jackson's record while avoiding the types of personal inquires they opposed in other recent confirmations.
Several GOP senators have telegraphed plans to question Jackson's defense of detainees at Guantanamo Bay as a private defense attorney; her support of reduced sentences for convicted drug offenders; and the backing of her nomination by outside progressive advocacy groups.
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She’s a Biden Judge.
[Traitor Roberts take note....]
She’ll be out by lunch.
Nothing historic about it. She will be met with little to no resistance.
The milquetoast rhinos will only toss her softballs. No rigorous and meaningful scrutiny about her character (cue MLK speech). Anyone who asks hardball questions we already know is a racist.
Today everything is “historic”
This affirmative action appointment is so bad that they could easily have a defection or two, then they don't have the votes.
Drop her like a sack of potatoes.
Well, since her writings sound quite pro-paedo, she is obviously IN with this WHouse; and the LuggButt “community” will vilify anyone who even asks a question and demands an answer.
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She better side with the dizzknee glbtqrpd’s or else. She is too ideologically set to the ‘prog’ side anyway but the usual republicrat suspects will probaby vote to confirm.
I think she’ll be an activist leftist judge who will be bad for the country. But she’ll get a pass because she’s a minority.
“historic” implies if she’s not confirmed it’s just another glaring example of the oppressive white man holding the black woman down.
More of the retard vote.
Cows eating hamburgers.
This is a freaking joke. What RINO, or any R for that matter, would NOT vote to approve the “first black woman” justice. Why, it is such an historic appointment, and it would be racist to vote her down. Nothing else matters. I want to throw up now.
If Rush were here, he might play the clips of a several media orgs repeating, “Historic!” or whatever is their word or phrase to praise this wacko.
It’s a wash. Who cares.
This woman repeatedly voted to reduce sentences of those convicted of child pornography and pedophilia.
There'll be at least 5 Democrat Senators who'll vote no, if she doesn't withdraw from consideration first.
The optics of this is just horrible. Hawley did a brilliant job here, which removes the race/woman angle off the table.
No. The “court’s credibility” will only be further diminished with that lady as a SCJ.
Nope. I bet she gets all 50 democrat Senators along with at least a few RINOs.
The media has already begun its unified all out push that anyone who opposes this "historic" nomination is nothing but a racist, sexist, homophobic white supremacist.
She checks three of the most important boxes; black, female, liberal.
She’ll get all 50 Democrat votes, and several RINO’s like Romney, Collins, Murkowski, and probably Graham.
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