The questioning by some Republicans of Ketanji Brown Jackson this week felt familiar for Black women who have faced similar insinuating questions about their credentials, qualifications and character.
In that singular moment, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke for countless Black women who have had to gather all the patience, strength and grace within to answer insinuating questions about their credentials, qualifications and character.
"It was really traumatizing to watch," said Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and convener of the Black Women's Roundtable. "My spirit feels it was to bring this Black woman down because she's about to break the glass ceiling that, once broken, opens the door to more."
"I can only wonder what's your hidden agenda," asked Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., pointing to one of the judge's earlier writings."Is it to let violent criminals cop killers and child predators back to the streets? ... Is it your personal hidden agenda to incorporate critical race theory into our legal system?"
For many supporters of Jackson, the Republicans' cherry-picking of her record tarnished a momentous occasion. The American Bar Association's standing committee on the federal judiciary said in its survey of some 250 judges, attorneys and academics that words such as"brilliant,""beyond reproach,""fair" were used to describe Jackson, who earned the panel's highest rating.
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