.MaddowBlog: It’s as if GOP senators were given a month to come up with compelling reasons to oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson, and they just couldn’t think of anything.
the fact that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is “very intelligent” and “clearly qualified” for the Supreme Court, but he had a problem.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday that he will not vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, citing her responses this week to questions about “court packing.” ... McConnell suggested in his remarks that he thought Jackson would be an activist judge, and he faulted her for not taking a position on court packing — adding justices to the nine-member Supreme Court.
Indeed, when then-Judge Amy Coney Barrett faced similar questions during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, the conservative told senators, “That is a question left open to Congress.” She added at the time that it would be inappropriate to “opine” on the matter. The Republican had weeks to come up with some kind of pretext. The fact that he was left with a claim that’s obviously unserious is emblematic of Jackson’s merits.reportedSeveral Republican senators repeatedly and misleadingly suggested during this week’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had given uncommonly lenient sentences to felons convicted of child sex abuse crimes.
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