{"id":1457950,"date":"2022-04-29T11:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457950"},"modified":"2022-04-29T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:14:46","slug":"hakeem-jeffries-embarrasses-himself-when-he-tries-to-defend-democrats-who-hurl-racist-smears-at-clarence-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hakeem-jeffries-embarrasses-himself-when-he-tries-to-defend-democrats-who-hurl-racist-smears-at-clarence-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakeem Jeffries Embarrasses Himself When He Tries To Defend Democrats Who Hurl Racist Smears At 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%2Fhakeem-jeffries-embarrasses-himself-when-he-tries-to-defend-democrats-who-hurl-racist-smears-at-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=1457950&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>New York Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries tried to defend Democrats who smear Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during a Wednesday hearing but was quickly shut down during a heated exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet heard testimony about Supreme Court ethics as leftists take aim at Thomas\u2019 wife, Virginia, and whether Thomas should recuse himself from certain cases.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/28\/democrats-target-clarence-thomas-push-supreme-court-recusal-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> during an opening statement he is \u201calarmed\u2026 about unanswered questions about Justice Thomas\u2019 failure to recuse from a decision that we now know might have implicated the actions of his wife and her apparent efforts to overturn the 2020 election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Partner at Schaerr Jaffe LLP, Mark Paoletta, testified that left hates <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/analysis-liberal-pressure-campaign-justice-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas<\/a> because he\u2019s a black conservative but doesn\u2019t conform to the left\u2019s idea of how a black man should think.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat evidence do you have to support that incendiary charge?\u201d Jeffries asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) calls him an \u2018Uncle Tom\u2019 because of his views on voter ID and affirmative action, when in fact more black Americans support voter ID, and with respect to affirmative action and college education, 62% opposed to it. So that is the most vile, disgusting thing you can say and so yes, that\u2019s the evidence,\u201d Paoletta responded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rep. Jeffries: \u201cWhat evidence do you have to support\u201d that Dems hate Clarence Thomas because he\u2019s a black conservative?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chairman of this committee called him an Uncle Tom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jeffries: \u201cHe has freedom of speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I give you another example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jeffries: \u201cNo.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HTaMxr8oGK\">pic.twitter.com\/HTaMxr8oGK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1519699408027328517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rep-bennie-thompson-defends-calling-clarence-thomas-an-uncle-tom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/nancy-pelosi-clarence-thomas-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas<\/a>\u00a0an \u201cUncle Tom\u201d in 2014. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/17\/wapo-stealth-edits-article-comparing-justice-clarence-thomas-white-conservative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: WaPo Stealth Edits Article Comparing Justice Thomas To A \u2018White Conservative\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cReclaiming my time, there are a lot of vile and disgusting things-\u201d Jeffries intervened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just asked me for an example,\u201d Paoletta shot back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notion that that answer is, and some members on this side of the aisle and others have been called the N-word throughout different points in our lives, but lies the point you have a particular bias, and its an overstatement which is not surprising when you look at the balance of your testimony. And if Chairman Bennie Thompson has an observation to make, he\u2019s entitled to free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I give you another example?\u201d Paoletta asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Jeffries said.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats want <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/clarence-ginni-thomas-recusal-ruth-bader-ginsburg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas to recuse<\/a> himself after texts emerged showing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/clarence-ginni-thomas-recusal-paoletta-severino-dhillon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his wife<\/a> sent messages to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in the days after the 2020 election which said \u201cdo not concede\u201d and claimed Democrats were attempting a \u201cheist\u201d of the presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Democratic Rep. 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