Shouting Ted Cruz presses Ketanji Brown Jackson on child porn sentences in fierce day of questioning
Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court nominee for U.S. President Joe Biden, in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Jackson held her own against a barrage of Republican attacks centering on crime and race, inching closer to becoming the first Black woman on the Supreme Court in a marathon day of testimony before a Senate panel yesterday.
That exchange came after a series of questions that included Cruz pressing Jackson to define “woman,” and asking if he could “decide I’m an Asian man” in order to sue for discrimination. On Wednesday, both Texans were pumping up the volume, with Cornyn saying he didn’t find one of her answers “credible.”
When Jackson stood by her answer that it depends, Cornyn responded: “I just don’t think that’s credible, judge.” “The more they frame her as an extreme leftist, the more they can use that as an argument for a Republican vote up and down the ballot in 2022,” said Mark P. Jones, a political scientist at Rice University. “The idea is, ‘If we don’t put a check on Joe Biden, he’s going to continue to nominate these types of far-left, activist judges, and we need to put a stop to that.’”
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