The Truth Behind Republicans’ Vile Questioning of Ketanji Brown Jackson

When Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man to be nominated for the Supreme Court, faced the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1967, he sat across from hostile Southern senators who sought, in the event of his confirmation, to lay at his feet the problem of rising crime gripping American cities. “I do not ask you these questions for any other purpose than to try to meet a responsibility here, before I again vote to confirm someone on that court whose philosophy, I think, if pursued without restraint and without being checked, would contribute to a menace that threatens our society,” Senator… Read Full Article