Jackson tears up as Booker addresses her historic nomination
By Alexander Bolton - 03/23/22 06:37 PM EDT
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson showed the emotional toll of two days of intense questioning when she wiped away tears late Wednesday afternoon as Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) broke some of the tension in the room by declaring how grateful he feels for her nomination to the Supreme Court.
Booker pushed back hard against Republican colleagues on the committee who relentlessly challenged her sentencing of several child pornography offenders while she served as a district judge and accused her of letting child predators off the hook.
“This is a new low,” Booker exclaimed, asking why Republicans didn’t raise any of the same issues when she was confirmed with bipartisan support to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last year.
He called the allegations “meritless to the point of demagoguery,” quoting from the conservative National Review magazine. Instead, Booker praised her a mainstream judge.
“The way you have dealt with some of these things, that’s why you are a judge and I am a politician. You have sat with grit and grace and have shown us just an extraordinary demeanor,” he said, warning that Republican attacks focused on just a few criminal cases are setting a “dangerous precedent.”
He noted that he had received letters from leaders of victims’ rights groups and survivors of assault supporting her nomination.
“There is absurdity to this,” he argued. “It is almost comical if it was not so dangerous.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/599488-jackson-tears-up-as-booker-addresses-her-historic-nominationPoor baby...at least she wasn't accused of RAPE!!!
