The senator served up another absurd GOP slam as Jackson neared Supreme Court confirmation.
Jackson will likely earn enough votes to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, but she had to endure yet another insinuation at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.“You know, the last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg and prosecute the Nazis,” Cotton said, referring to Robert Jackson, who was appointed by President Harry TrumanCotton’s absurd leap echoes a
as a public defender representing Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of terrorism. As a public defender, Jackson did not pick her clients."The last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg and prosecute the case against the Nazis. This Judge Jackson might have gone there to defend them."
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