The GOP thinks interrupting people makes them look tough

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Sen. Ted Cruz repeatedly defies Sen. Dick Durbin's pleas to stop questioning Ketanji Brown Jackson after his time expired

Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday repeatedly ignored requests from Sen. Dick Durbin, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to stop speaking over his allotted time during confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Cruz was in the middle of asking Jackson a question when Durbin hit his gavel to notify the Texas Republican that his 20 minutes had expired.

The Texas senator protested the move, saying that Durbin had "taken over a minute" of his time, referencing an earlier exchange between them, when Cruz had interrupted Jackson on several occasions and Durbin had asked the senator to stop cutting her off as she responded to questions.

"I just want you to play by the rules," Durbin told Cruz.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-ted-cruz-repeatedly-defies-204013330.html

Sen. Lindsey Graham interrupted SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson so many times that Sen. Dick Durbin intervened to let her speak

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin on Wednesday intervened in a back-and-forth between Sen. Lindsey Graham and the Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson after the South Carolina Republican kept interrupting the judge as she answered questions during her third day of confirmation hearings.

Graham asked Jackson for her positions on unauthorized immigrants and voting and pressed her on her sentencing record in child-pornography cases during his 20 minutes of questioning. When his time was nearing its end, Graham repeatedly interrupted Jackson as she tried to answer his questions.

The exchange came to a head when Graham pivoted to ask Jackson about Justice Brett Kavanaugh's 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Graham had exceeded his allotted questioning time, prompting Durbin, a top Democrat and the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to interrupt him.

"Well please, Mr. Chairman," Graham responded. "It's one minute and 47 seconds. She filibustered every question I had, and she has a right to give an answer. But I'm trying to make a point in 20 minutes."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-lindsey-graham-interrupted-scotus-173110456.html

Grow the fuck up Graham. I get it you're still butt-hurt about Kavanaugh but Judge Jackson had nothing to do that hearing.

[grumpyduck]

1. I don't that it's intended to make them look tough

so much as to become role models to the assholes who vote for them.

[brewens]

2. I'd like to see someone declare that they will not be interrupted answering questions, if they are

they refuse to answer any more questions from that senator. Would that be legal?

[abqtommy]

3. I don't care who members of the QOP interrupt, as long as it's their cellmate. nt