{"id":1650,"date":"2022-03-24T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/lindsey-graham-throws-yet-another-tantrum-during-scotus-hearings-the-daily-beast\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:47:27","slug":"lindsey-graham-throws-yet-another-tantrum-during-scotus-hearings-the-daily-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/24\/lindsey-graham-throws-yet-another-tantrum-during-scotus-hearings-the-daily-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham Throws Yet Another Tantrum During SCOTUS Hearings – The Daily Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the second straight day, Graham stormed off in a huff after showboating for the cameras and giving Fox News a selection of highlights.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) promised on Monday<\/a> that the Senate confirmation for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson \u201cwon\u2019t be a circus.\u201d
And yet, by Wednesday afternoon, the conservative lawmaker had thrown overdramatic fits and dramatically stormed off for two straight days<\/a> after contentious Q&A sessions with President Joe Biden\u2019s pick for the high court.
During his second go-round with Judge Jackson, the South Carolina senator once again used his time to air well-worn right-wing grievances, particularly over the way Democrats have supposedly mistreated conservative judicial nominees. At one point, he suggested that Jackson, a Black woman, should be happy about how \u201ceasy\u201d her confirmation process has been.
Referencing the 2003 filibuster of Bush nominee Janice Rogers Brown, who is Black, to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Graham huffed that \u201cif you are a person of color, a woman, supported by liberals, it is pretty easy sailing.\u201d
Eventually, Graham went down the same misleading road a few other politically-ambitious Republicans have trodden<\/a> throughout this hearing, berating Jackson over her sentencing in child-porn cases while suggesting she is sympathetic to pedophiles.
Of course, experts have noted that her sentences were \u201cpretty mainstream<\/a>,\u201d and even conservative legal experts have labeled attacks against her<\/a> as \u201cdisingenuous\u201d and \u201cmeritless to the point of demagoguery.\u201d
And yet, Graham bombarded Jackson with pointed questions about her sentences in a handful of cases while repeatedly cutting her off before she could provide a detailed explanation\u2014instead taking the opportunity to further browbeat Jackson.
\u201cIf you\u2019re listening to my voice today and you\u2019re on a computer looking at child pornography and you get caught, I hope your sentence is enhanced because the computer and the internet is feeding the beast here,\u201d he groused, objecting to Jackson\u2019s attempt to explain the antiquated guidelines in some of these cases.
Eventually, as he reached the end of his allotted time, Graham pressed Jackson on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s controversial and fiery confirmation hearings.
Asserting that Democrats \u201cambushed\u201d Kavanaugh with allegations of sexual assault<\/a>, Graham insisted he wouldn\u2019t treat Jackson that way before asking her to express her feelings about the 2018 hearings.
\u201cHow would you feel if I had a letter from somebody accusing you of something, a crime, or misconduct, for weeks, and I give it to Sen. Durbin just before this hearing\u2019s over and not allow you to comment on the accusation? How would you feel about that?\u201d Graham wondered.
\u201cSenator, I\u2019m not sure,\u201d a confused Jackson responded. \u201cI don\u2019t understand the context of the question.\u201d
As Graham continued to grill Jackson on the Kavanaugh hearings, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) told the Republican lawmaker that his time was up.
\u201cPlease, Mr. Chairman,\u201d Graham sneered. \u201cShe filibustered every question I had and she has the right to give an answer but I\u2019m trying to make a point in 20 minutes.\u201d
After some back-and-forth about Kavanaugh, Jackson said she would like to respond to Graham on her sentencing decisions in child-pornography cases.
\u201cThe point of the guideline is to assist judges in determining what punishment to provide in cases and they are horrible cases, but the idea is that between the range of punishment that Congress has prescribed, judges are supposed to be providing proportional punishment based on what a person has done,\u201d she noted. \u201cThe sentencing scheme doesn\u2019t place everybody at the same level.\u201d
Graham continued his pattern of interrupting her, despite Durbin repeatedly reminding him that his allotted time was over. \u201cI\u2019m going to give the witness is an opportunity to respond to you, senator,\u201d Durbin stated.
\u201cFinally,\u201d exclaimed Graham, who proceeded to cut Jackson off over and over again for the next few minutes.
Ten minutes after Graham\u2019s time had expired, the Trump-boosting senator got in one final shot while again suggesting Jackson was going easy on sex offenders.
\u201cAll I can say is that your view on how to deter child pornography is not my view,\u201d he seethed. \u201cI think you are doing it wrong and every judge who does what you\u2018re are doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited. If you are on a computer looking at a kid in a sexually compromising situation and you get caught I hope no one gives you a break because you used a computer.\u201d
The committee chairman chastised Graham for his performance, ultimately prompting the media-savvy senator to cap off his grandstanding with another storm-off.
\u201cThe conduct described is reprehensible and I think everyone in this room agrees. The fact of the matter is, I\u2019m a co-sponsor of your bill, the Internet Act. And I believe we should be doing our job here,\u201d Durbin said. \u201cBut part of our job, we failed in responding to the changing circumstances that face this crime.\u201d
The chairman added: \u201cWhat has it been, 15 or 16 years? She is currently not an outlier in sentencing. Seventy percent of federal judges face the same dilemma and wonder why Congress has failed to act and when it will act!\u201d
\u201cThis is our fault?\u201d Graham shot back, throwing his hands in the air.
Durbin replied that \u201cpartially it is\u201d as he moved on to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to begin her questioning of Jackson.
Graham, as he did the previous day, rose from his chair and appeared to walk off in a huff.<\/p>\n

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