Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others in GOP World are already showing their racist stripes ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee's planned confirmation hearings with President Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Katanji Brown Jackson.
In this Washington Post piece by White House reporter Seung Min Kim, #MoscowMitch indicated that "soft on crime" would be one of the charges at least hinted at during hearings slated to begin March 21.
Why would he say that about Judge Jackson? Because she served as a public defender, and all public defenders must automatically love criminals, right?
Here's what McConnell said about Biden's nominee in a Senate floor speech this week:
“This is a moment when issues relating to the law and the judiciary are directly hitting American families — from skyrocketing murders and carjackings; to soft-on-crime prosecutors effectively repealing laws; to open borders.”
So, it's guilt-by-association, a typical Republican BS tactic, even to the point of raising the old "open borders" dog whistle, something that has little to do with the confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice.
“That’s nothing but a racist deflection,” Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, told The Post. “It has nothing to do with what her record has demonstrated, it has nothing to do with whether she will be an appropriate and brilliant sitting jurist. It has nothing to do with the job that she is expected to do.”
Then, of course, we have that venerable old South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. You know, the guy who repeatedly warned America about Donald Trump when he was running against him, but then became Trump's chief boot licker after Trump won. Graham used that awful word, "radical," when describing Judge Jackson.
“The radical Left has won President Biden over yet again,” tweeted Graham.
But that's really mild compared to Fox host Tucker "Putin" Carlson, who mocked her name — calling it “a name that even Joe Biden has trouble pronouncing” — and demanded to see her LSAT scores, a request that many of Jackson’s supporters saw as racist, wrote Seung Min Kim.
Despite all of their posturing, zero Republican senators have disputed Jackson’s qualifications. She served nine years on the federal bench, clerked for retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, and has two degrees from Harvard University.
The Post article pointed out that Democrats say the GOP arguments indicate they are struggling to find reasons, any reasons, to oppose Jackson, who would be the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court in its nearly 233-year history. After all, she has been confirmed by the Senate three times — twice for federal judgeships and once for the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
“She has more experience as a judge than four of the people who are already on the Supreme Court,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said before meeting privately with Jackson. “Not that we’re keeping track.”