Judge Brown Jackson offered a guiding progressive judicial philosophy that was sorely lacking from Democratic senators.
As Jackson then went on to explain, if confirmed she would “work productively to support and defend the Constitution and the grand experiment of American democracy that has endured over these past 246 years.” That’s it. This is a progressive judicial philosophy shorn of the fear-mongering from Sen. Tom Cotton about American carnage, or of Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s FOX News bingo card of the aggregated marauding forces of critical race theory, transgender athletes, and child predators, or of Sen.
It should be played on a loop as the current court works ever harder to make living together peaceably, by voting and learning and coexisting, an elusive dream. And it should be played on a loop tonight next to the noxious Q Anon sound bites about how lovely Judge Jackson’s children are, even though she loves child sex offenders. Senate Republicans have set the tone for three more days of hearings in which we use threadbare legal concepts to fight over decades old slights.
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