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Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing Wednesday began with a testy exchange on GOP complaints about Sen. Dick Durbin’s “editorial comments” – which he defended as his privilege to make.
But the tension quickly dissipated when Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., the least senior member of the Senate, admonished his fellow senators to stop “bickering.”
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, began the exchange by lamenting that Durbin, D-Ill., the chairman of the committee, consistently undermined Republican senators’ comments Tuesday after they questioned Jackson.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pauses during Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, March 22, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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“I noticed that after every series of questioning on this side of the aisle, you choose to editorialize and contradict the points being made,” Cornyn said. “I don’t know whether we will have an equal opportunity to editorialize.”
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., backed up Cornyn. He specifically criticized Durbin for mentioning Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., by name in those editorial comments without giving him a chance to respond.
Durbin, however, said it is his right as chairman of the committee to make such comments.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, questions Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 22, 2022.
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