Supreme Court
GOP senators launch salvos on “critical race theory,” criminal sentencing and representing Guantanamo inmates.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson answers questions during the second day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. on March 22, 2022. | Francis Chung/E&E News/POLITICO
By Josh Gerstein and Marianne LeVine
03/22/2022 10:36 PM EDT
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Republicans unloaded a broad arsenal of attacks on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday, confronting her on issues ranging from her sentences for child pornography defendants to her representation of Guantanamo Bay inmates to alleged acts of judicial activism.
But as the hearing passed the 12-hour mark, Jackson seemed largely unruffled. In a few instances, her irritation with the questioning led to responded delivered “with all due respect” when it seemed she didn’t think much respect was due.
