(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Sen. Corey Booker, D-NJ, claimed that, despite Democrats’ history of politicizing Supreme Court nominee hearings, they were not to blame for politicizing Supreme Court nominee hearings, Townhall reported.
Appearing on NBC and striking a grave pose, Booker announced that Republicans were mostly to blame for asking difficult questions of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden’s black-woman nominee for the Supreme Court
“What we saw though this week was, to me, outrageous and beyond the pale and very different than what I’ve witnessed in my short time in the Senate seeing three different confirmation hearings and I think that what some of my colleagues did was just sad frankly,” Booker said.
He also claimed that Republicans have aided in harming the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
“I think that we’ve seen sort of the legitimacy of the court really suffer partly as a result of the tactics that we’ve seen going on in the Senate,” Booker said.
Of course,he conveniently forgot the part where Democrats—led by then Senate Judiciary leader Joe Biden, set the trend in motion with the circus-like confirmation hearings surrounding Ronald Reagan nominee Robert Bork and George H.W. Bush nominee Clarence Thomas.
Booker also dismissed the details of the 2017 hearings, during which Trump nominee Brett Kavanaugh was dragged through the mud for weeks.
Among the chief disruptors in the Senate Judiciary hearings then were Booker himself and now-Vice President Kamala Harris, who flouted chamber decorum repeatedly.
Referring to himself as “Spartacus,” Booker even threatend to violate Senate rules by releasing confidential committee documents.
Although a 600 page follow-up report and an FBI investigation ultimately exonerated Kavanaugh and implicated several of his false accusers in lawbreaking fraud, Booker somehow managed to justify in his own mind the misconduct from himself and fellow Democrats.
“There were extraordinary realities in the Kavanaugh hearings that I think demanded for that to be as contentious as it was and not just allowing it to go through without these extraordinary realities coming to the fore and being investigated,” Booker claimed.
By contrast, Booker made Jackson cry for joy during the hearing last week as he offered platitudes of support for her, emphasizing that she did not simply get the nomination because of she’s a black woman.
“You have earned this spot,” he said—contrary to the reasons cited by Biden himself.
“You are worthy,” he continued. “You are a great American.”
