frustrating week on the Senate floor, as President Joe Biden’s Ketanji Brown Jackson has been subjected to a nonstop barrage of racist and generally offensive questioning courtesy of GOP senators like Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz.
Seeing a Black woman begin the process of (hopefully) being confirmed to the should have been a watershed moment, and for many, .
However, the historical import of Jackson’s confirmation hearings was somewhat overshadowed by the racism and gender-based idiocy that Republican senators seemed to feel perfectly comfortable lobbing her way. (Seriously, Sen.
Cruz—you have one of the sharpest legal minds in the country on the stand, and you waste time asking her if ?) What felt like a corrective to that ugliness, though, was the clear and visible bond between Jackson and her husband, gastrointestinal surgeon Patrick Jackson who was present for every moment of the hearings.
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