Cory Booker denounced the lines of questioning during Ketanji Brown Jackson's SCOTUS confirmation hearings as 'outrageous and beyond the pale.' 'But ... you had a judge there that dealt with it in an extraordinary way.'
Sen. Cory Booker denounced the lines of questioning during Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings as "outrageous and beyond the pale" during an appearance Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press.
"It's just outrageous that they didn't bring this up less than a year ago, when she was going through a confirmation hearing," he said. Booker added: "I think that what some of my colleagues did was just sad, frankly. But again ... you had a judge there that dealt with it in an extraordinary way and showed America who she is, despite the outrageousness of the questioning."
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