The worst thing GOP senators have said in Ketanji Brown Jackson's hearings so far

March 22, 2022

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The worst thing GOP senators have said in Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearings so far

by Jessica Levinson

Republicans didn’t hold back on the first day of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing. Their insinuations ranged from suggesting Jackson is supported by a dark money campaign to attempting to resurrect “the ghost of the confirmation hearings of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.”

But one of the lowest provocations came from Sens. Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn, who charged that Jackson is soft on criminals charged with possession of child pornography, writes Jessica Levinson. “The fact that Hawley’s argument has been fact-checked and discredited doesn’t take all of the sting out of the attack,” she says. “The more people like Hawley who say ‘child pornography’ and ‘Judge Jackson’ in the same sentence, the more some people start to wonder, facts be damned.”

Read Jessica Levinson’s full analysis in today’s MSNBC Daily, and follow our live blog for real-time analysis of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

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