Supreme Court nominee getting better treatment

Now, nominee is getting grilled on issues, not allegations or their religion.

What a difference three years make! I remember watching the September 2018 hearings on the nomination of now Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the sexual assault allegations lodged against him, with little proof or corroboration to back them up. Now this week, we watch the hearings on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is being questioned by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
    While Brown Jackson has been grilled by some Republican committee members, it’s nothing like what Kavanaugh and Justice Amy Coney Barrett went through in the past couple of years. However, the current “grilling” has been on issues, not her high school years or how religious she is.
    By the way, where is Christine Blasey Ford these days, the professor who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault but couldn’t find one person to back up her story?
    Then there were the accusations of Coney Barrett as she underwent confirmation hearings on her appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, a few years before President Trump nominated her for the Supreme Court. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2017 said, “The dogma lives loudly within you, and that is a concern,” referring to her strong Catholic faith.
    Brown Jackson was asked this week about her faith by Sen. Lindsey Graham, to which she responded, “There’s no religious test in the Constitution under Article VI.” Maybe some of the U.S. senators should read up on the Constitution.

 

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