Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson endured hours of public scrutiny from skeptics during her Senate hearings this past week -- something familiar to many Black women.
The insinuations that Jackson, a distinguished jurist and mother of two, is a secret radical liberal or poses a danger to the safety of children felt to some supporters as yet another example of highly qualified Black women having to endure indignities and distortions of their credentials, even as they shatter racial barriers in American society.Campbell told The Associated Press that “the othering of her, in a sense, like she’s against our children,” seemed like a tired political tactic.
“I can only wonder what’s your hidden agenda,” asked Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., pointing to one of the judge's earlier writings. “Is it to let violent criminals, cop killers and child predators back to the streets? ... Is it your personal hidden agenda to incorporate critical race theory into our legal system?”
For many supporters of Jackson, the Republicans’ cherry-picking of her record tarnished a momentous occasion. Overall, during her time on the district court bench, Jackson presided over 14 total cases of child sexual abuse, interstate travel for child sexual abuse and child pornography.The American Bar Association's standing committee on the federal judiciary said in its survey of some 250 judges, attorneys and academics that words such as “brilliant," “beyond reproach,” “fair” were used to describe Jackson, who earned the panel's highest rating.
By Thursday, as the hearings concluded, Republican leaders in the Senate were using the issue — and her refusal to repeat earlier answers — as justification for opposing her confirmation.
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