With an eye toward the midterms, Republicans are sketching out their attacks on Biden's Supreme Court nominee.
set the upcoming Jackson confirmation hearings against the backdrop of “skyrocketing murders and carjackings,” insinuating that the judge was “soft-on-crime” because of her background as a public defender. “The same radicals who want to turn Democrats into the party of court-packing also badly wanted Judge Jackson for this vacancy,” McConnell said. “It’s a matter of record that this nominee was the anointed favorite of these fringe groups.
“I intend to explore why groups that are waging political war against the Court as an institution decided Judge Jackson was their special favorite,” McConnell added.hit Jackson with on his program this week, when he called on her to prove her credentials by releasing her LSAT scores — a demand that recalled’s crusade, during the birther campaign that helped launch his political rise, to get then-Presidentto release his college transcripts.
was able to skate past such careful vetting as McConnell rushed her onto the bench in the days before the 2020 election.
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