'What Supreme Court hearings?' GOP's 2024 hopefuls fail to find a springboard
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson have not provided a springboard for ambitious senators the way Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 hearings did.
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“What hearings?” said veteran New Hampshire Republican David Norway. “New Hampshire has 2% unemployment. Folks don’t watch paint dry or congressional hearings in the normal course of business.”
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, scored a viral moment with a giant blow-up of Ibram X. Kendi’s book “Antiracist Baby,” accusing Jackson of pushing “critical race theory” at the elite Georgetown Day School. Jackson, who is on the school’s board, said she did not know if critical race theory — an academic approach to analyzing the racial implications of laws that has nothing to do with how one raises a baby — was being taught there, noting that the board does not vet school curricula. (Private school boards are mainly tasked with fundraising.)
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After Cruz’s moment went viral, Kendi’s book shot to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list, showing that the opponents these senators vilify can also benefit from the attention.
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