{"id":1397233,"date":"2022-03-23T20:59:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T00:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397233"},"modified":"2022-03-23T20:59:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T00:59:55","slug":"dick-durbin-accuses-republicans-of-prejudice-against-harvard-grad-black-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dick-durbin-accuses-republicans-of-prejudice-against-harvard-grad-black-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Durbin Accuses Republicans of Prejudice Against &#039;Harvard Grad, Black Woman&#039;"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdick-durbin-accuses-republicans-of-prejudice-against-harvard-grad-black-woman%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=1397233&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) accused Republicans Wednesday of attacking Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson because of a \u201cstereotype\u201d against a \u201cHarvard grad, black woman\u201d during her confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Durbin opened the third day of hearings by using his opening statement to attack Republicans for their questions the day before, implying that they were motivated by racist and sexist prejudice against the nominee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou made a mess of their stereotype,\u201d he said, accusing Republicans of trying to portray Judge Jackson as of on crime for political and racist motives. \u201cThe endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association Chief of Police doesn\u2019t fit with their stereotype of a Harvard grad, black woman who is aspiring to the highest court in the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Judge Jackson herself declined to offer a definition of the word \u201cwoman\u201d when asked by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).<\/p>\n<p>Durbin told her that \u201cyour nomination turned out to an testing ground for conspiracy theories and culture war theories.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He also claimed, falsely, that Republicans had attacked Judge Jackson\u2019s family by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/23\/pre-k-12-school-where-judge-jackson-sits-on-board-pushes-cultural-marxism-on-kids\/\">scrutinizing<\/a> the use of Critical Race Theory in the Georgetown Day School on whose board she sits.\u00a0He added, again falsely, that Republicans said Judge Jackson should not have served as a public defender, or representing Guant\u00e1namo Bay terror detainees.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) specifically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/22\/watch-lindsey-graham-vs-dick-durban-fight-over-guantanamo-terror-detainees\/\">said<\/a> that he did not object to her offering her services, but to the policy of releasing terror detainees.<\/p>\n<p>Durbin also attempted, for the second day in a row, to undermine questions about Jackson\u2019s record as a judge in criminal cases.<\/p>\n<p>He attacked Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) for scrutinizing Judge Jackson\u2019s record on sex offenders, and claimed that Hawley \u201crefused to acknowledge\u201d that a judge he supported had also deviated from sentencing guidelines in one particular case, as if that resolved questions about Jackson\u2019s rulings in a wide variety of cases and her stated views on the subject. Durbin tried shifting blame to Congress for the lack of clarity in sentencing guidelines, saying Judge Jackson should not be held responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Several Republicans interjected to complain about Durbin \u201ceditorializing\u201d from the chair after their rounds of questioning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) accused Republicans Wednesday of attacking Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson because of a \u201cstereotype\u201d against a \u201cHarvard grad, black woman\u201d during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}