The hearings into Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court are over, but reporters at the New York TimesMany are still angry about the alleged racist treatment she received at the hands Republicans. They found some other voices that were angry as well for “How Black Women Saw Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing.”
Jill Cowan and Tariro Mazezewa were the reporters who collaborated to create the liberal gripe session.
Fentrice Driskell, a Democrat, was horrified by Judge Jackson’s conduct during the hearing. She was a Florida state representative and a Democrat.
Emory University Professor Andra Gillespie called her mother to tell her that her family was upset by the politics of race and politics.
For Black women in America, feelings of pride and hope over Judge Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court She was confronted with both pain and disgust when the Senate Judiciary Committee interviewed her this weekShe argued that she had a lenient attitude towards people who were charged with child sexual abuse imagery and critical race theory.
Many of the questions from some corners of the Republican Party were born of conspiracy theories and appeared to appeal to the party’s hard-right base. Judicial confirmation hearings often turn into political theatre that is not in line with the law.
Similar to the TimesThe Brett Kavanaugh hearings were treated?
Jackson (51) was required to be gracious or she would have been further attacked.
“Some of those folks deserved an upbraiding,” said Dr. Gillespie, 44, the Emory professor.
She said she kept recalling the confirmation hearings for Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, whose anger was lampooned by the actor Matt Damon on “Saturday Night Live.” (“I’m going to start at an 11,” Mr. Damon’s character said. “I’m going to take it to about a 15 real quick.”)
It TimesThe SNL skit mocking Kavanaugh is so funny that it’s hard to stop watching. Matt Damon, who admitted to knowing of the sexual predator’s alleged victim, Harvey Weinstein, was not a model in courage.
“Brett Kavanaugh was allowed to do that, to show his righteous indignation,” Dr. Gillespie continued. “But if Ketanji Brown Jackson had done that, we’d be talking about the angry Black woman being temperamentally unfit.”
How are you supposed to react when you’re being falsely accused of rape?
It TimesThe hearings were dominated by a pro-Jackson segment.
One bright moment that touched several women was hearing Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, tell Judge Jackson: “You have earned this spot. You are worthy.”
To add to the meritless accusations of Republican racism, add Vimal Patel’s story in Saturday’s paper trying to unleash a “gotcha” at Sen. Ted Cruz:
Mr. Cruz’s comments were part of a surprising assault on Georgetown Day as Republicans sought to exploit barely coded appeals to racism during the hearing for Judge Jackson, who is poised to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court….
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