The first African American candidate for the highest jurisdiction of the country has faced virulent accusations on the part of some Republicans during its confirmation hearings in the Senate.
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson appointed February 25 by President Joe Biden to replace Judge Stephen Breyer at the US Supreme Court underwent a difficult hearing at the Senate Commission on Legal Affairs.
If she is confirmed by the upper house, she will be the first African-American to sit in this jurisdiction who plays a major role in the lives of Americans. Of a total of 115 judges in two hundred and thirty-two years, the Supreme Court counted only two blacks: Thurgood Marshall, a legendary figure in American history, from 1967 to 1991, and Clarence Thomas, 73, since 1991 – This one has been hospitalized since March 18 with an influenza infection.
In two days, former Washington Federal Judge had to answer 642 questions, including less than 20% on its legal philosophy. Patiently, she wiped, Wednesday, March 23, the assaults of several ultra-conservative senators who have summoned her to answer unpublished questions in the confirmation process.
“Are babies racist?”, thus questioned Ted Cruz by brandishing a work for children in the hope of bringing it to comment on the “critical theory of race”, the republican battle horse, Eight months of mid-term elections. “What is a woman?”, Also wanted to know Senator Texan, wondering if, by virtue of “modern leftist sensitivities”, deciding “at that minute I am a woman” could not not make him a woman. There was talk of another republican moody: Transgender athletes. “I am not a biologist, she narrated. I know I’m a woman. And the woman I admire the most is in this room: my mother.”
Senator Josh Hawley (Missouri) attempted to present this mother of two children, aged 51 and graduated from Harvard, like a magistrate of a suspicious indulgence in porn-porn records. pedophilia. He has read that descriptive indictments that the PBS public chain retransmitting the live hearing asked him to prevent if he started to warn his listeners, in case children would be at the ‘listen. It was a question of a man found in possession of 6,700 videos involving children. The judge inflicted fifty-seven months in prison or less than required by the Prosecutor.
A classic course, an outstanding career
The Democrats defended their candidate by showing that on the fourteen cases of child pornography which she had had to judge – about some 500 criminal records of which she wrote the conclusions in her career – she had inflicted in ten cases of sentences equivalent or higher than the required awards. Herself tried to explain that the law that defines sentences based on the number of images possessed was written before the Internet, which facilitated the sharing of a large amount of pornographic material, but its explanations were constantly interrupted .
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