Summarizing Day Two of Supreme Court hearings regarding Ketanji brown Jackson New York Times accused Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee of appeals to racism in Wednesday’s front-page “news analysis,” “Judging a Judge on Race and Crime, G.O.P. Plays to Base and Fringe.”
Jazmine Ullloa and Jonathan Weisman wrote this:
After all of the entreaties from top Republicans to show respect at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, Senator Ted Cruz on Tuesday afternoon chose to grill the first Black woman nominated for the Supreme Court on her views on critical race theory and insinuate that she was soft on child sexual abuse.
The TimesWith this article on the frontpage, Sen. Ted Cruz (a Hispanic), tried to be made anti-black racist.
Texas Republican was clear in his message: Black women vying to be a judge on the supreme court of the land will, according to Mr. Cruz, feed criminals, allow pedophiles to flourish, and deny that white men are oppressors.
The attack, the most dramatic of several launched from inside and outside the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing room, included barely coded appeals at racism and explicit nods toward the fringes.….
Ulloa, Weisman, and Ulloa also added conspiracy theory to racism charge.
But central to the Republican message was the “soft on crime” aspersion, a line of attack that raised the specter of criminal defendants — many of them Black — coddled by a liberal justice system that they suggested Judge Jackson embodied.
Along similar lines, Republicans contended that the nominee had been especially lenient on purveyors of child sexual abuse imagery, a claim that spoke to a fixation of those wedded to the QAnon conspiracy theory. Its followers, some of which took notice online of the Republican line in question at the hearings, falsely believed that Trump was fighting an elite group of elites. This includes top Democrats who are child traffickers and/or pedophiles.
The TimesOver 35 years of disgusting Democratic attacks upon conservative Supreme Court nominees, (Robert Bork. Clarence Thomas. Brett Kavanaugh), the Democrats skipped this year, and reached back to Nixon’s era for more racist allegations. Is it possible that Weisman’s 2019 Twitter squabbles with minorities liberals are compensating, which culminated in an unfortunate spat between Roxane Gay and radical black feminist Roxane Gay
Allegations of being soft on crime have been a standard line of attack from Republicans against Democrats’ judicial nominees and candidates since at least the Nixon era, political scientists said. According to Justin Hansford (a Howard University law professor who also serves as the executive director for the Thurgood Marshall civil rights center), they are part of a common strain of criticism Black public servants have come to expect. “It is a dog whistle, and it plays to a certain audience,” he said.
Thurgood Marshall, the nation’s first Black Supreme Court justice, Reported similar coded language at his confirmation hearing 55-years agoA group of segregationist senators attempted to incite fear about clashes between police and civil rights protesters.
Further bizarre QAnon theories followed.
You can make leniency accusations [regarding child sexual abuse]Ms. Blackburn, Mr. Hawley, and Mr. Cruz appeared to exploit echoes from QAnon which is a wide, almost cultlike reach for some Republican base members….
It’s now extremist to be concerned about lenient sentences for child porn?
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