During the second day of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz questioned her about “critical race theory,” and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn asked her about the 2015 court case legalizing gay marriage.
— have made opposition to so-called critical race theory a key component to their campaigns.
Cruz also criticized Jackson’s record on sentencing child pornography offenders as too lenient — a line of questioning that Republicans on the committee have used to paint the nominee as soft on crime. But fact-checkers have said Republican comments are“The evidence in these cases are egregious,” Jackson said. “The evidence in these cases are among the worst that I have seen, and yet — as Congress directs — judges don’t just calculate the guidelines and stop.
“She did not get flustered,” Jackson Lee, who has a law degree and is a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, told The Texas Tribune outside the hearing chamber. “She kept the demeanor that is appropriate for the court.”a tweet from the Republican National Committee showing “KBJ” — the nominee’s initials — being crossed out and replaced with “CRT” — a reference to critical race theory — a “racial attack.
“When there is a right, it means that there are limitations on regulation, even if people are regulating pursuant to their sincerely held religious beliefs,” Jackson said, later noting that she was not in a position to comment about her personal views on the matter.
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