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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBooker reflects on Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings: 'This is not about racism. It's about decency'
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey said Sunday that there were moments during Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings last week that invoked a "familiar hurt" many Americans could relate to.
"I got a chance to witness firsthand what I think many people in America can relate to, is when you show up in a room qualified, when you show up in a room with extraordinary expertise and credentials, there are a lot of Americans who know that hurt, that you are still going to be treated in a way that does not respect to you fully," Booker told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union."
Bash asked Booker, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee where Jackson's hearings took place, if he saw racism in the room from the Republican senators. He stopped short of calling it that, saying instead that the situation for Jackson was more about her being a woman.
"No, I think this is not about racism. It's about decency," Booker, who is Black, told CNN. "I think that this is not about any kind of partisan effort."
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Cory Booker Calls GOP Treatment of Judge Jackson Beyond the Pale, Defends Kavanaughs Treatment
Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.) on Sunday criticized Republican senators questioning of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings as beyond the pale but defended Democrats treatment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his infamously contentious confirmation hearings.
Bookers comments came during an appearance on NBCs Meet the Press, after host Chuck Todd claimed that the hearings turned into something circus-like and that the confirmation process is broken and partisan. Noting that both parties play the blame game on why the hearings have become partisan, Todd asked Booker how to fix the broken process.
Booker replied that there is a lot of frustration among Democrats, clearly, for what happened with Merrick Garland, when Republicans refused to consider former President Obamas Supreme Court nomination of Garland in 2016.
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There were extraordinary realities in the Kavanaugh hearings that I think demanded for that to be as contentious as it was and not just allowing it to go through without these extraordinary realities coming to the fore and being investigated, he said.
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abqtommy
(14,118 posts)Hekate
(90,189 posts)I am sorry I missed Cory Bookers comments, but I was assiduously avoiding the hearings and every time I tried turning in the tv, there was always yet another *hole being indecent & I could not stand the humiliation they were bringing to the country.
Paladin
(28,202 posts)A really disappointing response, in my opinion.