Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) mentioned that Sen. Josh Hawley’s assaults on Pass judgement on Jackson don’t have any credibility as a result of he was once fist-bumping with 1/6 attackers.
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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC “THIS WEEK” ANCHOR: In any case, you’re additionally chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Pass judgement on Ketanji Brown Jackson affirmation hearings are set to start. Within the face of those hearings, we at the moment are seeing escalating assaults from Senate Republicans like Josh Hawley who set out a Twitter — sequence of tweets suggesting that Pass judgement on Jackson by some means is cushy on kid porn. It’s been debunked by way of a number of unbiased fact-checkers.
However what does that inform you in regards to the affirmation struggle forward?
DURBIN: Neatly, I’m now not positive what it indicators. However so far as Senator Hawley is anxious, right here’s the base line — he’s fallacious. He’s misguided and unfair in his research.
Pass judgement on Jackson has been scrutinized greater than somebody I will recall to mind. That is her fourth time prior to the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 3 earlier occasions, she got here via with flying colours and bipartisan fortify, the ultimate time once simply ultimate yr.
And now, Senator Hawley is making those fees that got here out of nowhere. The unbiased reality checkers like “The Washington Put up” and CNN have discredited his claims already. They will have to have. There’s no fact to what he says.
And he’s a part of the perimeter throughout the Republican Birthday celebration. This was once a person who was once fist-bumping the murderous mob that descended at the Capitol on January sixth of the ultimate yr. He doesn’t have the credibility he thinks he does.
I wrote on Saturday that Democrats will have to reply to Hawley’s smears in opposition to Pass judgement on Jackson by way of reminding the American folks that Josh Hawley supported Trump’s coup and the Capitol assault, which is strictly what Sen. Durbin did.
Josh Hawley’s claims have already been destroyed by way of reality checkers, and if he insists on repeating them at Pass judgement on Jackson’s affirmation listening to, the American other people will have to be reminded that Sen. Hawley has not up to 0 credibility.
Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Space Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Stage in Political Science. His graduate paintings keen on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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