Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) mentioned that Sen. Josh Hawley’s assaults on Choose Jackson don’t have any credibility as a result of he was fist-bumping with 1/6 attackers.
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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC “THIS WEEK” ANCHOR: Lastly, you’re additionally chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson affirmation hearings are set to start. Within the face of those hearings, we at the moment are seeing escalating assaults from Senate Republicans like Josh Hawley who set out a Twitter — collection of tweets suggesting that Choose Jackson someway is tender on baby porn. It’s been debunked by a number of unbiased fact-checkers.
However what does that inform you in regards to the affirmation struggle forward?
DURBIN: Nicely, I’m unsure what it indicators. However so far as Senator Hawley is anxious, right here’s the underside line — he’s mistaken. He’s inaccurate and unfair in his evaluation.
Choose Jackson has been scrutinized greater than any particular person I can consider. That is her fourth time earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee. In three earlier instances, she got here by with flying colours and bipartisan assist, the final time as quickly as simply final yr.
And now, Senator Hawley is making these prices that got here out of nowhere. The unbiased reality checkers like “The Washington Put up” and CNN have discredited his claims already. They need to have. There’s no fact to what he says.
And he’s a part of the perimeter inside the Republican Social gathering. This was a person who was fist-bumping the murderous mob that descended on the Capitol on January sixth of the final yr. He doesn’t have the credibility he thinks he does.
I wrote on Saturday that Democrats should respond to Hawley’s smears against Judge Jackson by reminding the American people that Josh Hawley supported Trump’s coup and the Capitol attack, which is strictly what Sen. Durbin did.
Josh Hawley’s claims have already been destroyed by reality checkers, and if he insists on repeating them at Choose Jackson’s affirmation listening to, the American folks ought to be reminded that Sen. Hawley has lower than zero credibility.
Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work centered on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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