Ted Cruz, as part of his “Verdict” podcast, recently held an event at Yale University. Appearing alongside The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles and conservative commentator Liz Wheeler, the Texas senator fielded a variety of questions from the crowd.
The one led to heated exchanges, but Cruz was as calm as ever, even though he was setting the questioner ablaze.
A student (or I assume she’s one) asked him about his questioning of Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearing. It wasn’t the details she was concerned with, though. Rather, she accused Cruz of asking “racist” questions and of being disrespectful to the now-Supreme Court Justice.
A conversation like this is a good example of how vaguely charged the accuser is. This woman says that Cruz’s questions were racist, yet she provides no examples at all to show how. Following the Judge Jackson hearings, my understanding of what Texas senator Cruz wanted to know was pretty solid. He asked every point about Judge Jackson’s judicial records. If one is going to accuse another person of racism, shouldn’t they cite the supposed racism?
Of note is that he didn’t accuse her of gang rape, nor did he go through her yearbook to ask her about drinking games. Instead, he inquired about her past record with child pornography and her involvement in a board at a school which blatantly taught Critical Race Theory. It would be relevant for Jackson to know if she plans on using the legal theory in her decision making process, given that it is, let’s not forget it, a legal theory.
Getting back to Cruz’s response, he begins by pointing out the abject hypocrisy of the left when it comes to protecting black candidates and nominees. If it was racist to question and vote against Jackson simply because she’s a black person, why was it not racist when Democrats did the same thing to Clarence Thomas? Janice Rogers Brown, perhaps? Cruz notes that the left casually dismisses racism accusations, but rarely provides any evidence. Likewise, he points out that liberals didn’t consider it sexist when Democrats voted in lockstep against Amy Coney Barrett.
Cruz’s objective view is correct on every point. Given the way the previous three nominating contests turned out, it is absurd to claim that Jackson’s mostly child-glove treatment was racist and beyond bounds. That double standard doesn’t fly anymore, and Republicans are not going to keep letting Democrats get away with it.
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