Voices from the G.O.P.’s far-right wing appeared determined to use Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearing for both their pursuits in the culture war and their own political ambitions.
A confirmation hearing on Monday for Ketanji Brown Jackson—the fifty-one-year-old federal judge whom President Biden, last month, to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer—began with a history lesson. A hundred and fifteen Justices have served on the Supreme Court since its first meeting, in 1790, Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat of Illinois and the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in his opening statement.
Even some of the Republican senators acknowledged the candidate’s credentials. “Congratulations—a well-deserved honor here,” Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, said. But neither Graham nor any of the other Republican members of the committee said anything to suggest that they would vote for Jackson.
It is sometimes tempting to believe that Hawley—the product of a Jesuit high school, Stanford, and Yale Law School—merely plays a right-wing crazy for the cameras and the 2024 G.O.P. electorate. Marsha Blackburn, the voluble first-term Republican senator from Tennessee, amply demonstrated that she is in a category of her own. Jackson has “consistently called for greater freedom for hardened criminals,” Blackburn asserted, citing no evidence.
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