Biden tears into Republicans for 'verbal abuse' of Justice Jackson
President slammed senators on Friday for the ‘vile’ abuse he said they heaped on Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearings.
He appeared alongside the newest justice on the south lawn of the White House for a celebration of the historic vote a day earlier to elevate the first black woman to the Supreme Court.
The sun shone and the Marine band played show tunes and pop songs before Biden used the setting to blast his opponents in the .
‘I knew it wouldn’t be easy but I knew the person I nominated would be put through a painful and difficult confirmation process,’ he said.
‘But I have to tell you, what Judge Jackson was put through was well beyond that.
‘There was verbal abuse, the anger, the constant interruptions, the most vile, baseless assertions and accusations.
‘In the face of it all Judge Jackson showed the incredible character and integrity she possesses.’
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President Joe Biden appeared on Friday alongside Vice President Kamala Harris to celebrate the arrival of Ketanji Brown Jackson (left) on the Supreme Court of the United States
The event was billed as a celebration by a White House and Democratic party that has been thin on victories recently.But Biden used it to attack Republican senators
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s husband Dr.Patrick Jackson and daughter Leila Jackson arrive on the South Lawn for the event on Friday to celebrate her appointment to the Supreme Court
Hundreds of guests stood and applauded the first black, female justice on the Supreme Court
COVID-19 has laid law much of Washington’s political elite this week, but it didn’t stop Biden hugging Jackson, the first black, female justice on the Supreme Court
The crowd gathered as Biden and Vice President Harris celebrated Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court
Jackson, 51, a federal appellate judge, was confirmed to the lifetime post by the Senate on Thursday on a 53-47 vote in a milestone for the United States and a political victory for the Democratic president.
She will replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, 83.
But to get there she had to face hours of grilling by Republican senators who attacked her record as a public defender and as judge on her sentencing.
This week Sen. Tom Cotton suggested that she would have defended Nazis.
‘The last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg and prosecute the case against the Nazis,’ he said on Tuesday, as the Senate debated her nomination, referring to Justice Robert H Jackson, who was chief counsel in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals.
‘This Judge Jackson might have gone there to defend them.’
Sen. Josh Hawley led the Republican charge with a Twitter thread that previewed his line of questioning during the hearings.
He claimed that Jackson had a history of letting ‘child porn offenders off the hook’ in the courtroom and in her legal opinions.
Republicans also ridiculed her when she steered clear of a trap when she was asked if she could define the word «woman.’
‘No, I can’t,’ she declared, before adding: ‘I’m not a biologist’.
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