U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, the other Republican senator from Texas, asked the nominee about the court case legalizing gay marriage and questioned her defense of Guantánamo Bay detainees who allegedly faced mistreatment
Cruz, who was classmates with Jackson at Harvard Law School, has not supported any of Biden’s judicial picks, and his comments Wednesday suggest that trend is unlikely to change with Jackson’s nomination.
“She did not get flustered,” Jackson Lee, who has a law degree and is a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, told The Texas Tribune outside the hearing chamber. “She kept the demeanor that is appropriate for the court.”a tweet from the Republican National Committee showing “KBJ” — the nominee’s initials — being crossed out and replaced with “CRT” — a reference to critical race theory — a “racial attack.
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