WaPo Bizarrely Claims GOP Treated Biden’s SCOTUS Nominee Worse Than Dems Treated Kavanaugh
The Washington Post’s editorial board has a strange view of Senate Republicans’ behavior during Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings that appears to be rather untethered from the historical record…
The Washington Post’s editorial board has a strange view of Senate Republicans’ behavior during Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings that appears to be rather untethered from the historical record.
“Throughout her Senate confirmation hearings, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been a model of composure, which is made all the more impressive by the egregious behavior of some on the Republican side,” the board wrote in an editorial on Wednesday.
It continued, “During the hearings, Republicans such as Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) have congratulated themselves for declining to treat Judge Jackson the way Democrats handled the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh. In fact, by the most relevant measures, Mr. Graham and a handful of other Judiciary Committee Republicans have handled themselves worse.”
The Post went on to claim a “woman credibly accused Mr. Kavanaugh of sexual assault” and that “it was Mr. Kavanaugh who behaved intemperately, personally attacking Democratic senators and revealing partisan instincts that raised questions about his commitment to impartiality.”
“By contrast, Republicans have smeared Judge Jackson based on obvious distortions of her record and the law. Mr. Graham and others painted her as a friend of child pornographers, despite the fact that her sentences in their cases reflect the judicial mainstream,” the editorial argued.
It also accused Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) of “assailing those concerned about transgender people” and noted that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) “attacked Judge Jackson for sitting on the board of Georgetown Day School, a D.C. private school, because he disapproves of its anti-racism curriculum, which Judge Jackson has never endorsed.”
However, the Post’s assessment of Republicans’ behavior wasn’t all bad.
It noted that Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) “questioned her respectfully on the originalist philosophy of judicial interpretation.” Meanwhile, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) “congratulated the Democrats on running a fair hearing.”