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Booker Slams GOP Questions for Ketanji Brown Jackson, You Won’t Believe What He Did Next.

Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday criticized Republican senators’ questioning of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson throughout her Supreme Court confirmation hearings as “beyond the pale”. Even worse, he then defended Democrats’ treatment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his infamously contentious confirmation hearings.

Booker’s comments came during a look on NBC’s Meet the Press, after host Chuck Todd claimed that the hearings developed into something “circus-like” which the confirmation process is “broken” and “partisan.” Keeping in mind that both events play the blame video game on why the hearings have become partisan, Todd asked Booker how to fix the “broken” process.

Booker replied that there is “a lot of frustration among Democrats, clearly, for what happened with Merrick Garland,”  when Republicans refused to consider former President Obama’s Supreme Court election of Garland in 2016.

“I think that we’ve seen sort of the legitimacy of the court really suffer partly as a result of the tactics that we’ve seen going on in the Senate,” Booker said. However, he claimed it is not a “simple conclusion” that both parties are at fault for how contentious the hearings have become.

“There were extraordinary realities in the Kavanaugh hearings that I think demanded for that to be as contentious as it was and not just allowing it to go through without these extraordinary realities coming to the fore and being investigated,” he said.

Kavanaugh faced a tumultuous confirmation process in 2018 after Christine Blasey Ford claimed he had sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers. Kavanaugh denied the claims.

“There were extraordinary realities in the Kavanaugh hearings that I think demanded for that to be as contentious as it was and not just allowing it to go through without these extraordinary realities coming to the fore and being investigated,” he said.

When he used his time for questioning to offer the judge a pep-talk of some kind, Booker made Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson tear up during the verification hearing last week.

“I want to tell you when I look at you this is why I get emotional,” Booker said to Jackson during the hearing. “You’re so much more than your race and gender. You’re a Christian, you’re a mom. Your intellect.”

“You have earned this spot, you are worthy. You are a great American,” he added.

Booker claimed during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that he desired to “reaffirm the truth” about Ketanji Jackson after she encountered “over the top” examination from three Republicans prior to him. He also claimed there were several minutes throughout the hearing that were “deflating” and “disappointing,” including when Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asked Jackson to give a definition for words “woman.” and the judge refused.

A number of other Republican senators, consisting of Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, questioned Jackson on her sentencing record from her time as a government district court, noting a variety of child-pornography instances where she imposed much shorter sentences than the government guidelines recommend. Hawley said Jackson’s record  “endangers our children.”

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H/T National Review

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