Judging a judge on race and crime, GOP plays to base and fringe.
Ketanji Brown JacksonJudge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court, listens as she is questioned by Sen. Ted Cruz during the second day of her confirmation hearing in Washington on Tuesday, March 22, 2022.
“I do think it’s a legitimate question to ask — would they be asking these questions if this were not a Black woman?” bristled Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who is also Black. “I believe you care for children, obviously your children and other children,” Cruz told the nominee. “But I also see a record of activism and advocacy as it concerns sexual predators that stems back decades, and that is concerning.”
Thurgood Marshall, the nation’s first Black Supreme Court justice, faced similarly coded language during his confirmation hearing 55 years ago, when a group of fervently segregationist senators tried to stir fear over clashes between civil rights protesters and the police, as well as crime on American streets.
Even an opponent of the judge’s confirmation, writing in the conservative National Review, dismissed the accusation as “meritless to the point of demagoguery.”
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