Republican Senator Asks If Ketanji Brown Jackson Has 'Hidden Agenda' To Promote Critical Race Theory

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Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn was one of many Republicans who made a complete ass of themselves during the first day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings, but Blackburn's comments ended up being the worst of the worst. Blackburn asked Judge Jackson if she had a "hidden agenda" to inject "Critical Race Theory" into the legal system, which was effectively a very racist thing to say. But if Blackburn understood the first thing about CRT, she would know that the legal system plays a huge role in it, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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1. "Anti-CRT hysteria" is English for "la invisibilidad" (nt)

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3. Marsha Blackburn is a stupid cow.

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4. That bonehead can't even define CRT.

But whatever it is, she's against it. That's what racists do.

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5. Tennessee pastors express 'embarrassment' towards Sen. Blackburn's SCOTUS nominee remarks

Marsha Blackburn is an embarrassment

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— Tennessee pastors expressed their "embarrassment" and "frustration" towards Tennessee's state Senior Senator Marsha Blackburn for her role on the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee after the second day of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Pastors part of the Southern Christian Coalition, a nonpartisan grassroots, ecumenical organization felt that Sen. Blackburn did not demonstrate professionalism by focusing on political talking points.

“While most Senators in the Judiciary Committee focused on the qualifications and experience of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, our Senator Marsha Blackburn’s line of questioning was inappropriate and irrelevant, and as a Christian, pastor, and Tennessean, I was embarrassed by her public behavior,” said Rev. Brandon Berg, Pastor of First United Church in Bristol, TN.

Senator Blackburn tossed away an opportunity to behave professionally in favor of currying votes from her political base. Her vocabulary of fear-mongering is in stark contrast to the faith she claims in a Savior who reminds us repeatedly, ‘do not fear,’ and ‘the first shall be last, and the last shall be first,’ while on the other hand, Judge Jackson shows the ability to live out the believer’s call to ‘do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God,’ as all Christians should strive to live out.

Sen. Blackburn said the nominee has taken progressive postions in her writings and speeches and Blackburn is determined to stand up for parents who don’t want progressivism in schools.