As her SCOTUS hearing continued Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Ketanji Jackson faced Sen. Ted Cruz (R – TX). The hearing did not go as planned.
During questioning, Cruz revealed multiple contradictions.
Townhall claims Jackson was asked questions about Critical Race Theory (CRT). She denied any involvement. “I’ve never studied Critical Race Theory, and I’ve never used it, it doesn’t come up in the work that I do as a judge,” Jackson declared.
Cruz also pointed out, however that in 2015 she spoke about CRT as a factor in sentencing.
Ketanji Brown Jackson says Critical Race Theory “doesn’t come up in the work that I do as a judge.”
Senator @tedcruzThen she reads from Critical Race Theory a quotation that she said was part of her job as judge. pic.twitter.com/MKtNjGeZw6
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 22, 2022
“I also try to convince my students that sentencing is just plain interesting on an intellectual level, in part because it melds together myriad types of law—criminal law, of course, but also administrative law, constitutional law, critical race theory, negotiations, and to some extent, even contracts,” Jackson said previously.
Jackson claimed that she was talking about “policy” and that it “didn’t relate” to what she did as a judge, but however she wants to try to wiggle out of what she said, she gave CRT weight and consideration, even according to her own words, as a factor to consider in making policy. Jackson may think she is trying to get out of under this one by dividing hairs, but she’s not.
Jackson also painted CRT as theory taught in a law school but Cruz had even more receipts, saying that the curriculum at the Georgetown Day School where Jackson was also a school trustee — and thus presumably has input into what is being taught — was “filled and overflowing” with CRT. Cruz pulled from the library a handful of books that were related to the topic, such as a book about the abolishing of police.
Senator @tedcruz: “If you look at the Georgetown Day School’s curriculum, it is filled and overflowing with critical race theory” — including books declaring “babies are racist.”
This school has Ketanji Jackson on its board. pic.twitter.com/O4Sen4fCrJ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 22, 2022
Cruz says that Cruz recommends some of these books for children aged 4-7 years.
Not “in the library.” ASSIGNED to kids aged 4-7. https://t.co/Qt5SgeOpHz
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 22, 2022
Jackson claimed that she didn’t know whether CRT was taught in the school, despite her position at the school. She tried to change her previous answer to say that she believed he meant public schools.
This is not what you believe it to be. She left out that the school board does not dictate curriculum. Barrett is also a member of the Board at a private school. Because public schools have a distinction, this is significant.
— Bella August (@BellaAugust4) March 22, 2022
Again this is an evasion of the greater point — she’s on the board of a school teaching CRT. This is what she is supporting or she wouldn’t be on the board there. There’s no way to get around that as a board member she’s involved in it.
Now, at least she recognizes it’s something that she should run away from, that she knows is going to hurt her chances, likely even with more moderate Democrats and getting any bipartisan support. If all the Republicans vote against her, she can still be confirmed if all the Democrats vote for her and Kamala Harris breaks the tie, but Jackson would need all the Democrats — she can’t afford to lose any of them. As I previously wrote, there’s already an open question about the Democrats hiding records on Jackson’s work on the U.S. Questions about Jackson’s work on the U.S. Senate Records Committee, and questions about her softness towards crime and pedophiles.
But her responses on Tuesday didn’t help her cause with Republicans.
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