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Former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse claimed on Friday that senators who vote against confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson as the next associate justice on the nation’s highest court will be “complicit” in her “abuse” by Republicans.
In an op-ed for The New York Times, Greenhouse, who spent thirty years covering the Supreme Court for the liberal paper, claimed Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee mischaracterized Jackson’s record as a lawyer and judge with “racist dog whistles,” “QAnon shout-outs,” and innuendos towards support for terrorism in a manner of behavior vastly different from confirmation hearings in the past.
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, March 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Greenhouse cited the confirmation hearings of past nominees, going all the way back to the late former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, in lamenting how “whiplash”-inducing and hyper-partisan hearings had become today. She, however, failed to mention Democrats’ treatment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in his contentious 2018 confirmation hearings that involved last minute allegations of sexual misconduct, including gang rape.
“When Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination reaches the Senate floor soon, every Republican who votes against her confirmation will be complicit in the abuse that the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee heaped on her,” Greenhouse wrote.
“Every mischaracterization of Judge Jackson’s record on the bench. Every racist dog whistle about crime. Every QAnon shout-out about rampant child pornography. Every innuendo that a lawyer who represents suspected terrorists supports terrorism,” she added. “The Republican senators who…
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