Sen. Ted Cruz brought up the confirmation process for Justice Brett Kavanaugh Monday in opening remarks during Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearing on her nomination to the high court.
The Texas Republican, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, mentioned his own podcast while telling Jackson her hearing would not be “a political circus.”
…Cruz said it was Democrats who politicized the Supreme Court confirmation process, arguing they went “so into the gutter with Judge Robert Bork that they invented a new verb, to Bork someone.” He also hit Joe Biden, then-Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, for the way he presided over Justice Clarence Thomas’s confirmation, calling that process “reprehensible.”
Cruz told Jackson that her hearing will not feature “that disgraceful behavior.” Read more…
