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Opinion | The Jackson Hearings Were an Opportunity for the GOP. They Didn’t Take It.
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| Contributor | WA Indy |
| Last Edited | WA Indy Mar 25, 2022 10:13pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Author | Sheryll Cashin |
| News Date | Saturday, March 26, 2022 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The confirmation hearing of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson could have been a cause for celebration, a moment when the long arc of America bending toward justice meant that the most qualified candidate to be nominated to the Supreme Court in decades just happened to be a Black woman — and that fact was normalized as unexceptional.
Instead, while there were moments of solemnity and respectful inquiry into the merits of Jackson’s record, the hearings were marred by other moments of stupid, operatic indecency in which character assassination supplanted good faith inquiry. Was this par for the course in a toxically divided nation in which dog-whistling and lying to whip up hysteria for votes are now a regular feature of GOP politics? Or was a Black woman targeted for racism, sexism and disrespect? |
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