{"id":1392539,"date":"2022-03-21T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392539"},"modified":"2022-03-21T17:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:29:40","slug":"watch-lindsey-graham-jackson-confirmation-wont-be-a-circus-like-democrats-made-kavanaugh-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-lindsey-graham-jackson-confirmation-wont-be-a-circus-like-democrats-made-kavanaugh-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Lindsey Graham: Jackson Confirmation Won\u2019t Be A \u2018Circus\u2019 Like Democrats Made Kavanaugh Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-lindsey-graham-jackson-confirmation-wont-be-a-circus-like-democrats-made-kavanaugh-hearings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392539&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Lindsey-Graham-at-hearing.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson that her hearing would not be a \u201ccircus,\u201d promising that the disruptions and underhanded tactics used by Democrats during the Kavanaugh hearings would not be repeated.<\/p>\n<p>Graham made the comments during his opening statements at the Senate Judiciary Committee\u2019s confirmation hearing on Monday. Graham began his remarks by congratulating Jackson on her accomplishments and her nomination. He said that the hearings would be challenging for her, informative for the public, and respectful by members of the committee. \u201cIt won\u2019t be a circus,\u201d Graham continued. \u201cWe\u2019re off to a good start. [Then-Chairman Chuck] Grassley couldn\u2019t get the first word out of his mouth before [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UcgkYigZorA\">protestors<\/a>] shut down the place\u2026Most of us couldn\u2019t get back to our offices during Kavanaugh without getting spit on. Hope that doesn\u2019t happen to y\u2019all,\u201d he said, pointing to the Democrat side of the bench.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs to the historic nature of your appointment, I understand,\u201d Graham continued, before pointing out that Democrats filibustered the nominations of Judge Janice Rogers Brown and Miguel Estrada to federal circuit courts, several of whom were present in the hearing room. \u201cIf you\u2019re a Hispanic or African-American conservative, it\u2019s about your philosophy. Now it\u2019s gonna be about the historic nature of the pick. It\u2019s gonna be about your philosophy,\u201d Graham stressed, adding that calling Republicans \u201cracist\u201d for asking tough questions \u201cis not gonna fly with us.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re gonna ask you what we think you need to be asked, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hawley-biden-scotus-nominee-has-a-pattern-of-letting-child-porn-offenders-off-the-hook\">Senator Hawley<\/a>, you need to ask her about her record as a district court judge, you should, I hope you do, and we\u2019ll see what she says. Very fair game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham then took issue with the fact that left-wing advocacy groups had mounted \u201cvicious\u201d attacks on Judge J. Michelle Childs and argued that those groups had a hand in Jackson\u2019s nomination. \u201cYou say, Judge Jackson, [that] you don\u2019t have any judicial philosophy <em>per se<\/em>. Well somebody on the left believes you do, or they wouldn\u2019t have spent the money they spent to have you in this chair. So we\u2019re gonna find out how that statement holds up over time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to know about your judicial philosophy, because people on the left, the far, extreme part of the left, believe that you are the best pick. I want to know why they reached that conclusion,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow when we say this is not Kavanaugh, what do we mean?\u201d Graham continued. \u201cIt means that no Republican Senator is going to unleash on you an attack about your character when the hearing is virtually over. None of us, I hope, have been sitting on information about you as a person for weeks or months, [and] you come into our offices and we never share it with you to allow you to give your side of the story, [and] we wait to the very last minute, when the hearing is about to be gaveled, concluded, and say \u2018oh, by the way, I\u2019ve got this letter,\u2019 and it so happens that every media outlet in the country had the letter too \u2026 None of us are gonna do that to you. And if any of us does that to you, all hell will break out. And it should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can watch Graham\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=83ol29qfWEo\">full opening statement<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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