Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faces questions from the senators on the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
The senators and Jackson gave their opening statements on Monday.
Jackson said on Monday, “During this hearing, I hope you will see how much I love this country, the Constitution, and the rights that make us free. I decide cases from a neutral posture.”
Cruz brought it up b/c Jackson sits on a school board that promotes CRT:
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson gave her definition of critical race theory (CRT) during questioning by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Tuesday and said it is a theory she has “never” relied on in her career.”My understanding is that critical race theory is it is the academic theory that is about the ways in which race interacts with various institutions,” she said. “It doesn’t come up in my work as a judge. It’s never something that I’ve studied or relied on, and it wouldn’t be something that I would rely on if I was on the Supreme Court.”Cruz went on to claim that CRT “frames all of society as a fundamental and intractable battle between between the races” and that it “views every conflict as as a racial conflict.””Do you think that’s an accurate way of feeling society in the world we live in?” he asked Jackson.”Senator, I don’t think so, but I’ve never studied critical race theory and I’ve never used it,” Jackson responded. “It doesn’t come up in the work that I do as a judge.”—Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said she’s “not sure” if critical race theory (CRT) is being taught at Georgetown Day School, an elite private Washington, D.C., school where she serves on the board of trustees.During his questioning of Jackson, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said he found it “a little hard to reconcile” Jackson’s previous comments about CRT and the fact that she serves on the board of a school that promotes the concept.Jackson said the board does not control the curriculum and she was not aware of the theory being taught there.“I don’t know, because the board is not the board does not control the curriculum,” she said. “The board does not focus on that. That’s not what we do as board members. So I’m actually not sure.”“I do not believe that any child should be made to feel as though they are racist or though they are not valued, or though they are less than, that they are victims, that they are oppressors,” she said. “I don’t believe in any of that.”
Of course infanticide comes up. SUPER PRECEDENT.
Good for her. Everyone, even the evilest, deserves a fair trial with a lawyer. The Bill of Rights reminds everyone of the human rights given to everyone by our Creator:
During Tuesday’s confirmation hearing, Jackson stressed the importance of criminal defense lawyers and argued that accused terrorists at Guantanamo Bay “were entitled to representation.”“That’s what makes our system the best in the world,” she said. “That’s what makes us exemplary.”“Federal public defenders don’t get to pick their clients,” she said. “They have to represent whoever comes in, and it’s a service. That’s what you do as a federal public defender. You are standing up for the constitutional value of representation. And so I represented as an appellate defender some of those detainees.“In the early days, the legal landscape was very uncertain. This had never happened before,” she continued. “Not only the attack, but also the use of executive authority to detain people in this way. And there were a lot of questions that the court was asking. The Supreme Court had taken a series of cases to try to understand what are the limits of executive authority, which is important. All of our liberty is at stake if we don’t get it right in terms of what the executive can do.”
Also, if you’re on the Judiciary Committee and don’t know that public defenders don’t get to choose their clients then maybe you shouldn’t be on the committee.
Lindsey Graham asked Jackson if she, as a Protestant, could fairly judge a Catholic. He only did this because the Democrats constantly smeared Amy Coney Barrett’s Catholic faith.
(Why are people so scared of us Catholics? I’ll never understand it.)
Dick Durbin asked Jackson how she felt when Josh Hawley kept talking about her soft sentences on child pornography. Um, where was he during Kavanaugh’s confirmation? He didn’t sympathize with Kavanaugh’s family? We all know the answer.
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