{"id":51068,"date":"2022-04-01T18:18:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T18:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51068"},"modified":"2022-04-01T18:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T18:18:38","slug":"gop-senators-sought-fox-air-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51068","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators sought Fox air time"},"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\">Leave it to the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee to seemingly own up to the truth about his GOP colleagues\u2019 questioning of Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearing on her nomination to join the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Ranking Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa all but admitted to a constituent that the GOP line of questioning was intended mainly to put the senators\u2019 faces and voices on the Fox News Channel.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think, Sen. Grassley?<\/p>\n<p>A woman on TikTok told Grassley that was her opinion, that Sens. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and Marsha Blackburn were seeking face time on Fox. \u201cI don\u2019t dispute that,\u201d Grassley responded.<\/p>\n<p>Well \u2026 what\u2019s done is done. The senators got their wish.<\/p>\n<p>However, many millions of Americans \u2014 such as yours truly \u2014 came away from the hearing thinking far better of Judge Jackson for the poise and stamina she exhibited and far less of the senators who exposed their ignorance and boorishness.<\/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>Leave it to the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee to seemingly own up to the truth about his GOP colleagues\u2019 questioning of Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearing on her nomination to join the U.S. Supreme Court. Ranking Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa all but admitted to a constituent that the GOP &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51068\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP senators sought Fox air time<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1941,9889,6363],"class_list":["post-51068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-gop","tag-ketanji-brown-jackson","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51068","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=51068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51069,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51068\/revisions\/51069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}