{"id":1435710,"date":"2022-04-13T14:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1435710"},"modified":"2022-04-13T14:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:44:50","slug":"fact-check-did-marsha-blackburn-make-a-racist-gesture-during-ketanji-brown-jacksons-supreme-court-confirmation-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-marsha-blackburn-make-a-racist-gesture-during-ketanji-brown-jacksons-supreme-court-confirmation-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Marsha Blackburn Make A Racist Gesture During Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s Supreme Court Confirmation Vote?"},"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%2Ffact-check-did-marsha-blackburn-make-a-racist-gesture-during-ketanji-brown-jacksons-supreme-court-confirmation-vote%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=1435710&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>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/maxine.bochnia\/posts\/pfbid0FWPi6SeNAkJh7MwoVzM9erza4wH2z5ea9hZT7uCkKsr1g3mxb7whXyuQXRgqnNDHl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn making a \u201cwhite power\u201d gesture during a Senate vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image shows Blackburn making the gesture while participating in a Senate Armed Services Committee proceeding, which occurred the same day as Jackson\u2019s Supreme Court confirmation vote. The gesture has several different meanings and is not exclusively a \u201cwhite power\u201d symbol, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Senate confirmed Jackson to be a Supreme Court justice in a 53 to 47 vote on April 7, making her the first black woman to serve on the court, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/07\/politics\/ketanji-brown-jackson-senate-vote-latest\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Blackburn, along with all but three other Republican senators, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1172\/vote_117_2_00133.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposed<\/a> Jackson\u2019s confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image appears to show Blackburn making the \u201cokay\u201d hand gesture, which has been associated with and employed by white supremacists, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/education\/references\/hate-symbols\/okay-hand-gesture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ADL<\/a>. The gesture is also known to have other meanings, the ADL reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a picture of Blackburn as the vote for the first black Justice of the supreme Court was being voted on,\u201d reads the post\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p>The image is not from Jackson\u2019s confirmation vote. A reverse image search revealed the photo stems from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/hearings\/to-receive-testimony-on-the-department-of-defense-budget-posture-in-review-of-the-defense-authorization-request-for-fiscal-year-2023-and-the-future-years-defense-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Armed Services Committee<\/a> hearing that took place the same day as Jackson\u2019s confirmation vote. Blackburn, who is one of 13 Republicans on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">committee<\/a>, can be seen making the gesture in an April 7 YouTube video she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EC1NAZR_i4o&#038;t=124s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> to her account of the hearing. During the hearing, Blackburn <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshaBlackburn\/status\/1512163080070914050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1512163080070914050%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snopes.com%2Ffact-check%2Fblackburn-white-power%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">questioned<\/a> Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley about sharing military intelligence with the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>There are no credible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=marsha+blackburn+%22okay%22+symbol&#038;ei=OMpWYuHLELKf_QaFp7-4Cw&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjhx4T5jJH3AhWyT98KHYXTD7cQ4dUDCA4&#038;uact=5&#038;oq=marsha+blackburn+%22okay%22+symbol&#038;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAM6BAgAEAM6BQgAEIAEOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToFCC4QgAQ6BQghEKABSgQIQRgASgQIRhgAUJkBWKwwYL85aARwAXgAgAGlAYgBtwmSAQQxNi4xmAEAoAEBwAEB&#038;sclient=gws-wiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news reports<\/a> that state Blackburn intentionally or unintentionally formed the \u201cOkay\u201d symbol during Jackson\u2019s confirmation vote.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/team.marsha\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">None<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marshablackburnforsenate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">senator\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=(from%3AMarshaBlackburn%20OR%20from%3AVoteMarsha)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marshablackburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marshablackburn\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posts<\/a> mention her doing so or have issued a statement regarding the allegation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn making a \u201cwhite power\u201d gesture during a Senate vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.Verdict:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435710","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\/1435710","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435710\/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=1435710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}