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Tom Cotton Shocks Even MAGAs: Says Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Might Have Defended Nazis at Nuremberg

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Oh, the Republicans were angry. First, a Democratic President had a Democratic Senate and thus would be able to get just about any SCOTUS nominee approved. You don’t understand. Only Republicans are allowed to appoint SCOTUS justices now!

That was bad enough. The Republicans also wanted some serious payback for having put Justice Kavanaugh through some serious discomfort over a rape that was clearly just boys being boys, right? The fact that Kavanaugh might have at least the appearance of a drinking problem (and insulted a sitting senator in a snarky answer for which he later apologized), and there was the fact that his massive debt, debt that was staggering for a federal judge and debt that this writer thought would prohibit all consideration, was seemingly wiped off the board, overnight. We don’t know by who. The fact that the Democrats gave Kavanaugh some difficulty enraged Republicans and they were going to get their pound of flesh in revenge.

And, of course, nominee Ketanji Brown-Jackson, perhaps the most qualified nominee ever, is a black woman.

It was the perfect storm.

Except the Republicans didn’t have anything. Nothing. She had just been approved for a seat on the all-important DC Circuit Court of Appeals ten months ago with Lindsey Graham’s yes vote. They had nothing. She is a normal woman with an extraordinary record. Nothing. They had nothing.

So they made up an issue, one that would apply to 70% of federal judges because she – like them, often gave child pornography defendants a sentence that was lower than the federal guidelines. Whenever one sees a statistic like the above, the 70% downgrade for one of the most heinous crimes, one knows that the problem doesn’t lie with the judges. It lies with the guidelines, they are too harsh. Yes, it is an abhorrent crime. So is shooting someone in the head. And yet all too often, the guidelines led the former to get a longer sentence than the latter.

The Republicans made up their issue. She was soft on crime, especially child pornography. It only went downhill from there.

How bad? Senator Tom Cotton shocked even some of his MAGA colleagues by saying that the last Supreme Court justice named Jackson stepped down to prosecute the Nuremberg trials. He then said that Ketanji Brown-Jackson might go to defend Nazis.

This might be a good place to mention; Three Republicans are voting to support her confirmation. Imagine what they think of Cotton’s statement.

No words. No words. Twitter tried:

https://twitter.com/JoePirsch/status/1511482970531631112

So are we.

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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