Here’s a look at some of the most notable exchanges and themes to emerge on Jackson’s first day of grilling ⬇️
Republicans unloaded a broad arsenal of attacks on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday, confronting her on issues ranging from her sentences for child pornography defendants to her representation of Guantanamo Bay inmates to alleged acts of judicial activism.
One who defied the trend was Sen. Ted Cruz , arguing that Jackson had ties to critical race theory — a view of pervasive racism in American society and a favored target of Republicans in recent months. However, the committee’s only Black member, Sen. Cory Booker , said Cruz’s efforts to link Jackson to critical race theory fell short.Late in the session, Sen. Marsha Blackburn briefly resurfaced the critical race theory issue, imploring Jackson to grant public school parents the right to prevent their children from being taught such concepts.
Jackson politely told senator after senator that if they were unhappy with her sentences in such cases, they could, er, look in the mirror. Republican senators noted that Congress initially made the sentencing guidelines mandatory so Jackson — and many other judges — wouldn’t have had the chance to opt for lower sentences in some cases. But in 2005 the Supreme Court ruled that the guidelines could only be advisory, not mandatory.
Later on in her confirmation hearing, Sen. Ben Sasse pressed Jackson on which justice she’s molded herself after. Jackson responded: “I don’t really have a justice that I have molded myself after,” adding that she’s “reluctant to establish or to adopt a particular label.” Jackson stated that she believes the Constitution is “fixed in its meaning,” but said there are times when “looking at those words are not enough to tell you what they actually mean.
Jackson also told Graham she was unaware of what he called “a concerted effort” by some liberal activists to denigrate other potential contenders to replace Breyer, including South Carolina federal judge J. Michelle Childs.that among those buffing up her resume on Wikipedia while making Childs and another contender sound less appealing to liberals was one of Jackson’s former clerks.
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