In its coverage of Biden’s first Supreme Court nominee, the New York TimesThere has been some progress in fairness. The newspaper will sometimes call Judge Ketanji brown Jackson a liberal. The paper’s historical pattern of stark labeling disparity between “liberal” Democratic Supreme Court nominees and “conservative” Republican ones.
As Senate hearings continued to Day Two at Capitol Hill, Tuesday, however the Times It has been rediscovered its old template: Defensive Democratic nominations and criticism of Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Times Carl Hulse, congressional reporter, set the stage Monday by hailing Jackson. He suggested that Jackson was intouchable due to her race.
Republicans admit it’s a delicate situation considering her likely confirmation and are reluctant to show support for a woman of colour. with a gold-plated legal résuméHe is well-known for his solid work as a jurist.
Reporter Katie Rogers, after offering a back-handed compliment to early flashes of gentility by Republicans, quickly reverted to the template of an unfairly put-upon Democratic nominee suffering unfair questioning from Republicans:
However, the tone changed quickly as Republicans emphasised that Judge Jackson would be treated with respect and that they wouldn’t personally attack her. They also accused Jackson of being too soft on child sexual abuse victims and other sex offenders. Without evidence, several suggested she might be aligned to progressive groups interested in increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court.
Republican “seizing” commenced:
Evidently, several Republicans, Mr. Graham included, tried to justify the harsh lines of questioning that would be used in the days ahead. The explosive confirmation hearings of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh were capturedIn 2018, Judge Jackson claimed that he was being treated unfairly by the Supreme Court.
Rogers couldn’t defend Kavanaugh’s treatment by Democrats, so she resorted to weak whataboutism:
He made no mention of the fight over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick B. Garland in 2016. Republicans denied him hearing and waited to see who would win in the presidential election.
He is currently the attorney general.
So by liberal standards of “cancel culture” denial, Garland was unharmedSince he finally landed in an outstanding position?
Annie Karni’s story on Tuesday, “G.O.P. Questions to Judge Jackson Give Preview of November Attack Lines,” was partisan in painting the GOP as brutal partisans.
Republican senators look ahead to many of their attack lines in midterm elections, as they question Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
These televised hearings are a prominent opportunity for Republicans, who can air their cultural grievances which motivate their hard-right base such as transgender and antiracism.They work together to discredit Judge Jackson and to generate anger among those who are outraged by her possible elevation to the Court.
On Monday morning as the hearings started, Judge Jackson was described by the Republican National Committee as an activist of radical left-wing and a proponent for critical race theory in a press release. It refers to a legal field that studies how racism is embedded in law and institutions. But, the term has been used by the Right to discredit any discussion on structural racism.
Karni also covered live hearings on Tuesday from a partisan perspective.
12:29 p.m.: Many of these Republican Senators, who are all white men, seem well aware of the pitfalls of interviewing Black women. Therefore, they go out of their ways to say how charming, knowledgeable, and gracious she is to them personally. They then launch into partisan attacks on her that attempt to portray her as an extremist.
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