South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham proudly declared the quiet part out loud today with regard to the impending confirmation of President Biden’s Supreme Court Justice nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, when he admitted that if the Senate were still under the control of the Republican party, Judge Jackson’s hearing would have been completely shut down before they ever got off the ground.
Graham — who made a complete spectacle out of Jackson’s Senate confirmation hearings when he stormed out not just once, but twice — made the admission during today’s meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote on Jackson’s nomination, amid his remarks confirming that he would not, in fact, be voting in favor of confirming the Biden pick to the Supreme Court.
Despite the fact that he voted in favor of Judge Jackson’s nomination to the D.C. Court of Appeals, his decision against Ketanji’s confirmation today will serve as the first time Graham has opposed a Supreme Court pick in his entire congressional career.
“The Supreme Court is different from the Circuit Court,” Graham said as he tried to explain away his recent moves. “I voted for her at the D.C. Circuit Court level because I’m disposed to do that.”
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“Now that you’re talking about the Supreme Court, you’re making policy, not just bound by it,” the GOP senator stated.
Graham went on to fume that Jackson’s nomination was “really embraced by the most radical people in the Democratic movement to the exclusion of everybody else.” This comes on the heels of Lindsey’s abhorrent behavior during Judge Jackson’s hearing, in which he almost violently questioned the Biden Supreme Court pick while openly whining about the way Trump’s pick, Brett Kavanaugh, was treated during his hearing.
But Lindsey didn’t stop there, going on to argue that Jackson is an “activist to the core,” and her nomination boils down to nothing more than the Biden administration pandering to “the hard Left.”
“When you had a chance to support an African-American conservative, you used her ideology against her,” Graham fumed as he veered into the topic of Jackson being the first African American woman to serve on the Supreme Court. “You blocked her from being considered by this committee, and we’re supposed to be like trained seals over here clapping when you appoint a liberal. That’s not going to work.”
The Republican sycophant ended with this thinly-veiled warning:
If we get back the Senate and we’re in charge of this body and there is judicial openings, we will talk to our colleagues on the other side. But if we were in charge, she would not have been before this committee. You would have had somebody more moderate than this. So, I want you to know right now, the process you started to go to a simple majority vote is going rear its head here pretty soon when we’re in charge. Then we’ll talk about judges differently.”
Not even trying to hide it now, huh, Lindsey?
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