A host of Republican senators, many of them lawyers who should well understand the duty of an attorney, especially when appointed by the court, to effectively defend an accused, plan to attack Judge Ketanj Brown Jackson at the hearing on her Supreme Court nomination, for her brief tenure as a public defender.
The hypocrisy of these senators knows no bounds. Though they profess to be champions of constitutional rights and the rule of law, when it comes to the defense of indigent criminal defendants by women attorneys of color, they opt to punish the defenders of those rights for daring to accept their court-assigned clients and to represent them to the best of their ability.
It is troubling that these same senators raise no such objections to judicial nominees whose careers may have been spent soliciting the lucrative cases of corporations charged with serious criminal violations which affect the public at large.
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