Two other Republican senators attacked the high school that one of Jackson’s daughters attends. Tuesday, the first day of the hearing where senators on the Judiciary Committee could actually ask questions of Judge Jackson, included allegations from five Republican senators that Jackson is soft on child pornography offenders.īefore those misleading attacks kicked off in real force, Graham stormed out of the hearing after attacking Jackson for providing legal counsel to Guantanamo Bay detainees - and suggesting that by doing so, Jackson endangered national security.
It’s not hard to guess what happened next. “ No Republican senator is going to unleash an attack on your character when the hearing is almost over,” Sen. Multiple Republican senators promised not to levy similarly “personal attacks” against Jackson.
On Monday, the first day of Jackson’s confirmation hearing, several Republicans complained about the way that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was treated prior to his confirmation, after Kavanaugh was credibly accused of sexually assaulting a woman while he was in high school. One day after Republican senators promised they wouldn’t levy personal attacks against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, several of them generated a storm of misleading - and often offensive - attacks against her.
