Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) selected to make use of his open assertion at Choose Ketanji Jackson Brown’s affirmation listening to to defend Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh.
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Ted Cruz calls Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual assault allegations “teenage courting habits,” as he tries and fails to ship a 2024 presidential marketing campaign stump speech as a substitute of a gap assertion at a Supreme Court docket nominee affirmation listening to. pic.twitter.com/5AoHRuHvpZ
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Cruz mentioned:
It’s only one aspect of the aisle that what occurred with Justice Clarence Thomas was so reprehensible that because the president who nominated him, President George Herbert Walker Bush wrote on the time, quote, what’s occurring to Clarence Thomas is simply plain horrible. All of the teams who tried to beat him up try to destroy a good man, ugly course of and one can see clearly why so many good individuals elect to remain out of public life. As Justice Thomas noticed in that listening to, what occurred there was to make use of his phrases, a high-tech lynching. And I might be aware the chairman who presided over that shame was Joe Biden.
After which a lot of the members of this committee bear in mind the affirmation listening to of Brett Kavanaugh. One of many lowest moments within the historical past of this committee, the place Democrats on this committee sat on allegations, didn’t refer them to the FBI, didn’t ask for investigations, hid them after which leaked them in opposition to the needs of the complainants. And we started a circus that featured Spartacus moments, featured such nuts as Michael Avenatti who was breathlessly described for months by CNN as a doable Democratic presidential candidate that’s earlier than presumably he grew to become a felon in current months.
Choose Jackson, I can guarantee you that your listening to will function none of that disgraceful habits. Nobody goes to inquire into your teenage courting habits. Nobody goes to ask you with mock severity, do you want beer? That’s to not say this listening to must be nonsubstantive and non-vigorous. On this listening to, this committee has a duty to give attention to points, to focus in your file, to give attention to substance. To do our easiest to establish what sort of justice you’d be.
The circus that Ted Cruz was complaining about by no means truly occurred as a result of the FBI later admitted that the investigation into Kavanaugh was a Trump White House sham.
Ted Cruz used his opening assertion on the affirmation listening to for doubtlessly the primary African-American girl Supreme Court docket justice in American historical past to complain about how poorly males who have been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault have been handled at their SCOTUS affirmation hearings.
Cruz’s remarks have been stomach-turning and a reminder of why this nation wants extra girls in positions of energy like Choose Jackson on the Supreme Court docket.
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 targeted on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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