Thank you, Mr Chairman of
Again. Congratulations, well deserved.
Honor here. You have worked hard all your life and
Um yeah. Most be proud of
I have said.
In the past, and I think it's good for the
Court to look like America. So count me in on the idea of making
the court more diverse.
And in the history of our country. We've never had an African American
woman served on the court.
But also said that didn't get much coverage. I want
I want the court.
To play a particular role in America.
One is make it more low like the country but also make it operate
in the
Confines of the Constitution That didn't
didn't get a lot of coverage, so here's are going to be challenging.
For you.
Informative for the public and respectful by us.
I hope we can meet that.
Those criteria. Um, it won't be a circus. We're off to a good start.
Ah!
Chairman Grassley couldn't get first word out of his mouth.
Where they shut down the place. So that's
After a good start.
Most of us couldn't go back to our offices during Cavanaugh without
getting spit on hope That doesn't happen to you all.
I don't think it will.
Ah as to the historic nature of your appointment. I understand, But
when I get lectured about this from my Democratic colleagues
I remember Janice Rogers Brown African American woman. It was filibustered
by the same people praising you.
Remember? Remember Miguel Estrada the finest people ever met.
Completely wiped out.
Didn't make it through the
Gang of 14. Whatever gang I was in, I've been in so many I can't
remember.
He didn't make the cut, well lived life just completely ruined. So
if you're Hispanic or African American conservative is about your
philosophy.
Now it's going to be about the historic nature of the pick.
That's gonna be about your philosophy.
The bottom line. Here is when it is about
Philosophy. When there's somebody of color on our side, it's about
we're all racist. If we asked hard questions, it's not gonna fly
with us. We're used to it by now. At least I am
So it's not gonna matter Bit than any of us. We're going to ask you
what we think you need to be asking Senator Hawley, You need to ask
her about her record as a district court judge. You should. I hope
you do.
We'll see what she says. Very fair game. Ah, now
President Biden had a choice here.
And he has every right to make it. Elections have consequences. He
had many qualified African American women to choose from the chose
you.
Michelle Charles District Court judge from South Carolina, supported
by Jim Clyburn, that was in the mix. I think it came down about 234.
People don't know for sure. But that's what the press was reporting.
And when it came to Judge Charles
This Arabella groups and her white House. You talk about dark money,
You may be onto something.
This air Bellow group is funded by source and some other liberal
being there. They've got so many groups when their group I can't
name them all now, but they basically said, if you if you pick Charles
You may have a primary opponent.
There fell, CEO said Justice just child was a union buster.
The attacks from the left against Judge Charles
Was really pretty vicious, to be honest with you.
So you say.
Judge Jackson. You don't have any judicial philosophy per se.
Will somebody on the left leaves you do
Or they would have spent the money they spent. They have you in this
chair, so we're going to find out how that statement.
Pulls up over time.
A beer is God this hearing
She will be asked about her sentencing.
Practices as a
District Court judge and she'll have a chance to explain her raising
and you can make up for yourself what this means, but it's good to
be asked
Ah!
A batter legal views. I'll ask her about the law of armed conflict
and her view of the law of armed conflict. The fact to you represent
a Gitmo detainees is not a problem with me. Everybody deserves a
lawyer you're doing there.
Country a great service when you defend the most unpopular people,
But I do want to know about your makeup's brief after you were no
longer defense counsel weighing into the Supreme Court about how
they decide law of war issues that matters a lot to make.
I think it does matter that the groups that came to your aid at the
expense of Judge Charles how How did that happen? And why were they
doing what they were doing?
What is it about your nomination that the most liberal people under
the umbrella of Arabella through and their money their time their
support and threaten, uh, Joe Biden if he picked Judge Charles, I
want to know more about that.
I want to know about your judicial philosophy.
Because people on the left the for extreme part of the left believed
that you were the best bet.
Now I want to know why they reached that conclusion. Maybe there's
no explanation. You can give us but let we'll talk about that.
Now when we say this is not Kevin, what do we mean?
It means that Democratic senators are not going to have the windows
busted by groups. That's what it means.
It means that no Republican senator is going to unleash on you and
attack about your character when the hearing is virtually over.
Nine of us, I hope have been sitting on information.
About you as a person.
For weeks or months. You come into our offices and we never share
it with you to allow you to give your side of the story. We wait
to the very last minute.
When the hearings about to be gaveled concluded and say, Oh, by the
way, I've got this letter.
And so happened that every media outlet in the country had the letter
to so the next morning headlines all over the country, really accusing
Judge Kavanaugh of being basically Bill Cosby.
None of us are going to do that to you.
And if any of us does that to you?
All hell will break out.
And it should.
The media will be your biggest cheerleader there in your camp. They
have every right to pick who they want to pick.
There won't be this constant attack.
On you like Judge Kavanaugh and other
Conservative judicial appointments. There won't be any question of
where you go to church.
What kind of groups you're in in church. How you decide to raise
your kids What you believe in how you believe in God.
Nobody's gonna do that to you.
And that's a good thing.
So you're the beneficiary of a lot.
You're the beneficiary of Republican nominees having their lives
turned upside down.
And it didn't work.
So I'm hoping that we can have a hearing This respectful, this informative
that's challenging.
And
President Biden has every right to pick who would like to pick that
comes with winning the White House and I've been very inclined to
support the pics.
Of people that I would not have chosen.
But this is a new game for the Supreme Court.
And this game is particularly disturbing to me.
Because there's been a host cell effort of the left.
To take down a nominee for master.
And don't like it very much.
In the past the way the game is going to be played, then.
I'll have a response.
And I don't expect it to be reward that way of playing the game.
Justice child Judge Child's would've gotten 60 plus votes.
There have been people and my caucus.
That would have voted for even though we knew should be reliable,
liberal vote
Because I and Senator Scott would have stepped up.
Now we're picked. Now we're facing a choice.
Sponsored by the most radical elements of the Democratic Party when
it comes to how to be a judge.
They have the most radical view.
Of where the judge should do.
And you were their choice.
And you will be asked. Do you support expanding the Supreme Court?
I hope you can give us an answer, because it shouldn't be hard Either
you do or you don't
Justice Ginsburg said No
She thought, if you just change the number of the court every time
somebody new came in power, it would ruin the court and the eyes
of the public and make it a joke. Over time. I agree with that.
So I hope you can give us an answer that question.
Because I think the court
Would be better off.
If the judges stood up.
For the court.
If the judges told politicians don't play this game with the court
calls over time, nobody wins. So congratulations.
It's going to be a couple interesting days.
And we're off to a better start than we have been in the past.
And the one thing I can promise you. You will not be vilified. You
want you will not be attacked.
For your religious views. You will not be accused of something that
you could not defend yourself against until it was too late.