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 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.
It is historic because 97 percent of the available candidates for the job were eliminated because of Biden’s racism and sexism, and he brags about it.
They're not going to confirm someone who supports lenient sentences for child pornographers and pedophiles. Not even RINOs or medium-left Democrats.
Biden didn't expect Hawley to blow it all up. He & the Dems just thought that any criticism of Jackson would be racist and she'll get confirmed. In fact, that's why he nominated her, to push the pedo agenda. But he didn't expect Hawley to come out like this.
Nobody will even hear what Hawley had to say. I’m betting she gets 75 to 80 votes.
So Tweets decide.
Sure they are, and Hawley is just a racist, sexist, homophobic white supremist for even bringing it up.
Seriously, the media will rally around Ketanji Jackson and demonize Hawley to give the congresscritters cover to confirm her.
She’s an extremist Leftist RADICAL who will abuse her position to ruin our constitution. This will tell be who in the GOP is insane if they vote yes.
Few GOP senators up for November reelection will risk media wrath for opposing the first, historic, black chick to Scotus.
Imagine the impact of a Constitution without the 17th Amendment. A Constitution just like that worked pretty well for 134 years.
Wouldn’t voting down the first far left-wing black woman Supreme Court nominee be just as historic?
It is not going to happen, but it would be historic.
I expect any opposition to her, and the media will say that they “lynched” her.
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