A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.
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People For Supporter –

If you weren’t able to watch Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearing
yesterday, allow us to summarize the highlights – or lowlights, as the
case may be – for you.

Unfortunately, since they had so little substance on which to attack Judge
Jackson, several far-right senators resorted to bad-faith, baseless smears
that seemed simply designed to push hot-button, divisive allegations
instead of actually evaluating her qualifications.

For example, Senator Cruz of Texas spent most of his allotted time trying
to tie Judge Jackson to the favorite far-right boogeyman of critical race
theory, despite her obvious explanation that it’s an academic theory
taught at the graduate school level that has never come up in her work as
a judge.

Senator Graham of South Carolina tried the “guilt by association” angle to
attack Judge Jackson for her work as a public defender on behalf of
detainees at Guantanamo Bay; when contradicted by Senator Durbin, Graham
launched into a heated tirade and then stormed out of the hearing room.

Senator Blackburn of Tennessee – who earlier this year characterized
another Black judicial nominee’s three speeding citations more than ten
years ago as a “rap sheet” – claimed that Judge Jackson had given a
lecture saying critical race theory should be considered by judges in
making decisions on the bench, a claim immediately rated by PolitiFact as
“false.”

And Senator Hawley of Missouri continued his attempts to paint Judge
Jackson as soft on child pornography offenders – attacks that even the
conservative National Review have derided as “meritless to the point of
demagoguery.”



[ [link removed] ]If you agree with us that these baseless allegations are nothing but a
smear campaign to tarnish the reputation of a highly qualified jurist who
deserves to become the first Black woman to join the United States Supreme
Court, please renew your People For membership with a generous donation to
help us fight to confirm Judge Jackson. >>



Here at
People For, we’ve been fighting for a judicial system that protects the
rights of ALL Americans, not just the wealthy and well-connected, for more
than 40 years. And we’re deeply concerned – we hope you are too – at the
prospect of these far-right legislators gaining a majority in the Senate
this fall, and shutting down all the progress President Biden has made in
rebalancing the federal judiciary since he took office last year.

People For doesn’t have secretive billionaire donors; we rely on a network
of more than a million activists and supporters just like you – who
believe in courts that are fair, just, and work for all of us.

We’re one of the lead organizations in the broad coalition fighting to
confirm Judge Jackson, and are fighting hard these days to educate the
public and organize pressure on senators on both sides of the aisle to
confirm her without delay.



[ [link removed] ]But we need your help! As a grassroots-funded
organization, we depend on financial contributions from people like you to
support our work. So please renew your membership and step up with the
most generous donation you can possibly give today, to help fight for
Judge Jackson’s confirmation AND prevent a Far Right takeover of the
Senate this fall. >>



We appreciate your support; with your help, we’ll make history and get
this extremely qualified nominee confirmed to the Supreme Court.

Sincerely,

Ben Jealous, President

 

 



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