Asking hard questions is not racist. Asking racist questions is. Republicans haven't been subtle about their concern that a Black woman is poised to join the Supreme Court.
at the very idea that President Biden decided to nominate a Black woman to replace Justice Stephen Breyer, so there wasn’t much doubt that Jackson’s hearings were going to be threaded with racism. Sen.
Lindsey Graham sure knew it, which is why on Monday he tried to preemptively quash any criticism of how Republicans handled the first Black woman to appear before a Supreme Court nominating committee. “It’s about how we’re all racist if we ask hard questions,”Asking hard questions is not racist. Asking racist questions is. And through two days, Senate Republicans and the GOP have turned Jackson’s hearings into a symphony of dog whistles.
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