WASHINGTON – Sen. John Cornyn affirmed Thursday what was already apparent, that he will vote against confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S....
Both Texas senators, Cornyn and Cruz, had made their opposition clear to Biden’s historic nomination of first Black woman to the high court.
His fellow Texas Republican, Sen. Ted Cruz, has been railing against Jackson, depicting her as a proponent of so-called critical race theory, an academic framework that probes the way policies and laws uphold systemic racism, and accusing her of being soft on child porn defendants.So far only one Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine,for the nomination. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has blasted Jackson as lenient in sentencing.
“The job is not to start with the desired result and work backwards and cherry pick the legal reasoning to justify the decision,” Cornyn said, adding that Jackson’s testimony left him convinced that she would not abide by that. “‘Ultimately, I fear Judge Jackson has a blind spot when it comes to judge-made law, and she would use her seat on the Supreme Court to create new rights out of whole cloth and engage in result-oriented decision-making. ...
Jackson was puzzled. She never had applied that term publicly or in court filings to Bush or Rumsfeld.
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