Sen. Lindsey Graham's prosecutorial inquisition of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, disrespectful in tone, contemptuous in manner and unfair in blocking the judge's attempts to respond, was unwarranted, reckless, and unworthy of a senator and the process of judicial selection. After first professing offense at earlier attempts by Democrats to block the judicial nomination of Judge Janice Rogers Brown, a Black woman, and reenacting his out-of-control rant, last performed at the Kavanaugh hearing, Sen. Graham then disgraced himself and the process by using the occasion to make direct appeals to his rightwing base and by launching long, angry and accusatory tirades at Judge Jackson while refusing to allow her to complete her answers.
One can only hope that fair-minded viewers will see the parallels between the despicable treatment of this Black woman and the disparagement of Anita Hill by this same Senate committee more than 30 years ago.
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