Source: United States Senator for South Carolina Lindsey Graham
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today delivered opening remarks on the first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
- GRAHAM: “As to the historic nature of your appointment, I understand. But when I get lectured about this from my Democratic colleagues I remember Janice Rogers Brown, an African American woman, who was filibustered by the same people praising you. I remember Miguel Estrada, one of the finest people I ever met – completely wiped out, didn’t make it through the Gang of 14…he didn’t make the cut. Well-lived life, just completely ruined. So if you’re a Hispanic or African American conservative, it’s about your philosophy. Now it’s going to be about the historic nature of the pick.” https://youtu.be/Np11xu0N7po?t=80
- GRAHAM: “Michelle Childs, a District Court judge from South Carolina, supported by Jim Clyburn, was in the mix…this Arabella group is funded by Soros and some other liberal billionaire, they’ve got so many groups within their group, I can’t name them all now. But they basically said if you pick [Judge] Childs, you may have a primary opponent. The AFL-CIO said Judge Childs was a union-buster. The attacks from the left against Judges Childs were really pretty vicious to be honest with you.” https://youtu.be/Np11xu0N7po?t=171
- GRAHAM: “I think it does matter that the groups that came to your aid at the expense of Judge Childs, how did that happen and why were they doing what they were doing? What is it about your nomination that the most liberal people under the umbrella of Arabella threw in their money, their time, their support and threatened Joe Biden if he picked Judge Childs? I want to know more about that. I want to know about your judicial philosophy, because people on the left, the far extreme part of the left, believed that you were the best bet, and I want to know why they reached that conclusion.” https://youtu.be/Np11xu0N7po?t=286
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