Letter to the editor: Republicans' questioning of Jackson embarrassing
The article “Legal experts weigh in on final day of Jackson’s hearings” mentions “questioning” by Republican senators. What I saw did include questioning, but some GOP senators apparently were more interested in demonstrating their incredible lack of maturity in comparison to the poised demeanor of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Sens. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Lindsey Graham in particular were loud, disrespectful and consistently in error about their claims. Cruz didn’t use the word “uppity,” but I’m sure his supporters understood that was what he was thinking in his frequent racist attacks on the person of Jackson.
What is odd about the many attempts to paint the judge as an extreme leftist is that her record and her responses together show that she is not particularly political. She has a history and a philosophy of following the law.
In the end, several Republican senators embarrassed themselves.
Robert J. Reiland
O’Hara
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