{"id":50997,"date":"2022-03-23T02:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T02:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50997"},"modified":"2022-03-23T02:21:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T02:21:03","slug":"hearing-previews-2024-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50997","title":{"rendered":"Hearing previews 2024 campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Ladies and gentlemen, I am prepared to declare that we are witnessing with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on whether Ketanji Brown Jackson should join the Supreme Court a preview of the 2024 Republican Party presidential primary.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an unattractive spectacle and I detest the notion that a respected jurist is being used as a political football by senators who might seek their party\u2019s presidential nomination in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m talking about Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Josh Hawley of Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>They are trying to push hot-button issues dealing with race and abortion and trying to appease the nut-job \u201cbase\u201d of the GOP voting bloc while they grill Judge Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>To the nominee\u2019s great credit, she is holding up well under the onslaught.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden promised to present a highly qualified nominee to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer. He delivered when he nominated Judge Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to salute Jackson\u2019s former role as a public defender. The Supreme Court hasn\u2019t yet welcomed a jurist with that kind of background. Jackson has talked about understanding a defendant\u2019s mindset and the value that understanding has brought to her experience for the past decade as a judge. That aspect of her background alone would bring remarkable and laudatory diversity to the nation\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n<p>That, of course, won\u2019t stop the GOP presidential hopefuls from parsing her past comments and seeking to damage her reputation by suggesting things about Judge Jackson that do not exist.<\/p>\n<p>From my vantage point, they are embarrassing themselves and have been unable to lay a hand on the nominee\u2019s stellar standing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, I am prepared to declare that we are witnessing with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on whether Ketanji Brown Jackson should join the Supreme Court a preview of the 2024 Republican Party presidential primary. It\u2019s an unattractive spectacle and I detest the notion that a respected jurist is being used as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50997\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hearing previews 2024 campaign<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1941,9889,6363,5051],"class_list":["post-50997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-gop","tag-ketanji-brown-jackson","tag-scotus","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50998,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50997\/revisions\/50998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}