{"id":1392847,"date":"2022-03-21T19:59:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T23:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392847"},"modified":"2022-03-21T19:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T23:59:45","slug":"the-chairman-who-presided-over-that-disgrace-was-joe-biden-cruz-savages-vicious-treatment-of-clarence-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-chairman-who-presided-over-that-disgrace-was-joe-biden-cruz-savages-vicious-treatment-of-clarence-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Chairman Who Presided Over That Disgrace Was Joe Biden\u2019: Cruz Savages Vicious Treatment Of Clarence Thomas"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fthe-chairman-who-presided-over-that-disgrace-was-joe-biden-cruz-savages-vicious-treatment-of-clarence-thomas%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=1392847&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\/GettyImages-1386914915.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, in his opening statement in the confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden\u2019s nominee to the Supreme Court, Senator Ted Cruz targeted Biden, pointing out that the shameful treatment of Justice Clarence Thomas at his confirmation hearings were held when Biden himself was the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz also pointed out the Democrats\u2019 ignominious treatment of Judge Robert Bork, not mentioning that the vicious attacks on him, which led to the term \u201cborking\u201d being coined, also were led by Committee Chairman Biden and then-Senator Ted Kennedy, as Bork wrote about copiously in his classic, \u201cThe Tempting of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupreme Court nominations were not always controversial \u2026 so what changed?\u201d Cruz asked rhetorically, continuing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Well, what changed was starting in the 1960\u2019s and the 1970\u2019s the Supreme Court\u2019s role in our society changed dramatically; the Supreme Court became a policy-making body rather than merely a judicial body. \u2026 Our Democratic colleagues want the Supreme Court to be anti-democratic. Our Democratic colleagues get frustrated with the democratic process. When they can\u2019t pass gun-control laws because the American people don\u2019t support them, they want unelected judges to mandate those same laws instead. Law after law after law that they can\u2019t get through the democratic process the Democrats have decided it\u2019s much simpler to convince five lawyers in black robes than to try to convince 330 million Americans. That is why Supreme Court confirmations have become so contentious, is because the Supreme Court has arrogated to itself a responsibility the Constitution doesn\u2019t give it, which is to make contested policy decisions and take them away from the American people.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Turning to the current hearing, he stated, \u201cNow what should this hearing be and what should it not be? You\u2019ve heard a number of members of the Republican side of the aisle quite clear on what it should not be. This will not be a political circus. This will not be the kind of character smear that, sadly, our Democratic colleagues have gotten very good at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to note that couple of years ago I was doing my weekly podcast and I was on with a noted liberal intellectual who made a comment something to the effect of \u201cBoth sides do this; both sides smear Supreme Court Justices,\u201d he recalled. \u201cAnd I was forced to laugh out and say, \u2018Look, I understand that\u2019s a pretty good talking point. It just happens not to be true.\u2019 It is only one side of the aisle, the Democratic aisle, that went so into the gutter with Judge Robert Bork that they invented a new verb: to \u2018bork\u2019 someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is only one side of the aisle that with Justice Clarence Thomas was so reprehensible that as the president who nominated him, President George Herbert Walker Bush, wrote at the time, \u2018What is happening to Clarence Thomas is just plain horrible. All the groups that tried to beat him up on abortion, affirmative action, have now come out of the woodwork. They are trying to destroy a decent man. This is an ugly process and one can see clearly why so many good people elect to stay out of public life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz noted, \u201cAs Justice Thomas observed in that hearing, what happened there was, to use his words, a high-tech lynching. And I would note the chairman that presided over that disgrace was Joe Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then most of the members of this committee remember the confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh, one of the lowest moments in the history of this committee, where Democrats on this committee sat on allegations, didn\u2019t refer them to the FBI, didn\u2019t ask for investigations, hid them, and then leaked them against the wishes of the complainant,\u201d Cruz asserted. \u201cAnd we began a circus that featured Spartacus moments; featured such nuts as Michael Avenatti, whom CNN breathlessly for some months described as a possible Democratic presidential candidate \u2014 that\u2019s before presumably he became a felon in recent months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz said, \u201cJudge Jackson, I can assure you that your hearing will feature none of that disgraceful behavior. No one is going to inquire into your teenage dating habits. No one is going to ask you with mock severity, \u2018Do you like beer?\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n[embedded content]\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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