The Senate's Supreme Court peacekeeper prepares for his moment
Dick Durbin is a patient senator. And his restraint will be tested during this week’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Republicans telegraphed for weeks that they wouldn’t put up a major fight against Jackson in the Durbin-chaired Judiciary Committee. Then came their soft-on-crime attack. Just five days before the first Black woman nominated to the high court is set to appear before the panel, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) rolled out a lengthy broadside against her record on sentencing in child pornography cases.
The argument that Jackson’s light on sex offenses, already vocally rebutted by Democrats, is expected to be a leading GOP charge against Jackson when her hearings begin Monday. Although Durbin’s been preparing for this moment ever since he joined the Judiciary panel, he was still gobsmacked at Hawley’s line of questioning.
“I can’t believe it,” Durbin said.
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Hawley's a punkass, nothing more.
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