Ted Cruz grilled Ketanji Brown Jackson about a picture book as part of a dubious attempt to link her to critical race theory
Ted Cruz goes to town on a book named Anti-Racist Baby. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP/Shutterstock Day two of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination got weird early on when Lindsey Graham pitched a temper tantrum about Gitmo detention policies – a topic remote from Jackson’s long record of jurisprudence – and stalked out of the room.
That’s right: The Texas senator went far enough down the rabbit hole to note that the private school on whose board the judge serves has anti-racism books on its summer recommending reading list for students, as Raw Story reports: Cruz also suggested Jackson might be a proponent of critical race theory because she studied at Harvard Law School, where CRT was deployed by some faculty . And the senator pointed to a 2005 speech Jackson made mentioning CRT as one of a number of academic topics affecting criminal-sentencing policy .
Having rapidly thrown out a bucketful of innuendo, Cruz later reopened and expanded some of the allegations Senator Josh Hawley made yesterday about Jackson’s record in child-porn cases, extensively questioning her about a student-law-review note she wrote in 1996. The back-and-forth almost certainly mystified most viewers.
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