I got an email asking when I’d opine about the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings. I would if I could, but it’s a done deal. I’d rather recall the Kavanaugh hearings.
Justice Kavanaugh was a sitting federal judge, nominated by a sitting president, whose party controlled the Senate. A slam dunk, right? It was the GOP’s purview to nominate and approve the admittedly conservative Kavanaugh. Thus, there was no excuse for the ”Animal House” tactics employed by the minority party, who injected identity politics into the ”advise and consent” process, making a mockery of the hearings.
Democrats and their media cronies kicked ideals like due process and presumed innocence to the curb, believing 100% the incriminations of a teeny-bopper-turned-partisan-woman, in order to ruin a fellow American, who just happened to be a conservative. In the end, Republicans rightly dug in their heels and pressed on toward confirmation – and guess what? He is no far-right ogre.
After two years, The Atlantic concluded Kavanaugh’s “judicial record has proved solidly conservative but not radically so.” He’s “prone to incrementalism, disinclined toward culture war…and yet he remains a magnet for criticism.” That’s the cost of the Democrat “hit job” upon a devout Catholic, good father, and devoted husband.
Like in the political cartoon (above) from the liberal Sacramento Bee, stereotyping Kavanaugh as a dazed frat-boy and Jackson as a self-aware victim. As if Republican questions to a Biden nominee about “critical race theory” and “child porn sentences” remotely compare to the harsh treatment Democrats hoisted on Trump’s nominee.
It just doesn’t matter, so wrap it up (and take away a campaign 2022 issue). Jackson seems pleasant enough, and the seat was always going to a liberal judicial activist. That’s just the way it is…