Naturally, the PBS NewsHour was delighted with President Biden’s nomination of radical Decide Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court docket on Friday evening. David Brooks touted how Jackson brings “a brand new lived set of experiences. It could actually’t assist however have a humanizing facet.” He put her within the mainstream….of the Democrats. That would possibly be appropriate, however the Democrats are far to the left!
BROOKS: Ideologically, there are all these ranking programs that fee judges on how liberal or how conservative they’re. She’s just about within the mainstream of Democratic nominees. One of many ranking programs I noticed put her barely to the proper of Elena Kagan. One other put her a bit to the left. However she’s very a lot within the mainstream of a Democratic nominee.
And he or she’s clearly changing a Democratic nominee, so, as Marcia Clark mentioned earlier as we speak, that it is most likely not going to change the ideological steadiness, but it surely’ll widen the human aperture.
Jonathan Capehart acted like the large smear of Brett Kavanaugh by no means occurred, and lectured the Republicans higher behave:
CAPEHART: I believe that, if Republicans keep on with substantive criticisms of Decide Jackson, both her document or rulings or instances, they are going to be advantageous. However the second they stray into the territory that Senator Kennedy of Louisiana did by saying he hoped the president would select somebody who may inform the distinction between a J. Crew catalogue and a legislation e-book, or one other member of Congress who mentioned earlier than even an individual was named that, it doesn’t matter what, that the president was making an affirmative motion rent, in the event that they go down that route, they need to be ready for withering criticism.
That’s a humorous commonplace, to evaluate the nominee earlier than there’s a nominee. In any case, Capehart mentioned whoever it was, she can be “sensible” as a result of she was black and needed to overcome all of the racism. Then Capehart misquoted Brooks:
And, additionally, Republican leaders, those that say that they are Republican leaders, needs to be ready to sentence these people, as a result of there is no such thing as a query that Decide Ketanji Brown Jackson is certified to be on the court docket, needs to be on the court docket, and is not some radical, however, as David mentioned, is within the mainstream of American political thought and life.
In two earlier segments, PBS averted a lot discuss of the choose’s ideology as they oozed about that “widening the human aperture” stuff. However when it got here up, PBS correspondent Lisa Desjardins dismissed it. She requested liberal Marcia Coyle of the Nationwide Legislation Journal: “Marcia, now that we all know Decide Jackson is the nominee, we are also getting an concept of possibly some Republican criticism forward, this from Senator McConnell as we speak, the Republican chief of the Senate. He mentioned: ‘Jackson is the selection of far-left darkish cash teams.’ Now, that is political, after all, not substantive.”
Not less than Coyle replied “Actually, Democrats accused Republican nominees of being supported by darkish cash teams.”
PBS NewsHour reporter Lisa Desjardins objects to criticism of Ketanji Brown Jackson. “This from Senator McConnell as we speak, the Republican chief of the Senate. He mentioned: ‘Jackson is the selection of far-left darkish cash teams.’ Now, that is political, after all, not substantive.” pic.twitter.com/v3JtLUn6CU
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) February 26, 2022
PS: PBS by some means ignored the brand new PBS ballot that confirmed Biden’s approval ranking at 39 %, and 56 % mentioned Biden’s first yr was a failure.
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