Plus: 5 Key Highlights From Day 4 of Judge Jackson’s Confirmation Hearing
March 25 2022
Happy Friday from Washington, where senators yesterday heard from supporters and opponents of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to join the Supreme Court. Fred Lucas has main points. In Florida, congressional Republicans offer solutions to crises created by the left. Virginia Allen is there. On the podcast, she talks to Rep. Michael McCaul about challenges posed by Russia and China. Plus: Victor Davis Hanson on the whirlwind the left will reap; Nicole Russell on the definition of “woman” at the high court; and Peter Brookes on Putin and chemical weapons. Ninety years ago today, the Supreme Court overturns the convictions of nine black youths suspiciously accused of raping two white women on a train in Alabama, finding they didn’t have adequate representation.
Elites assume that their radical changes in energy use, media reporting, voting, sovereignty, and racial and ethnic quotas will never quite apply to themselves, the architects of such top-down changes.
Republicans created seven task forces to listen to citizens and “find the solutions ... to a lot of the problems the Democrats have created,” says House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
The State Department claims Russia has an active, undeclared chemical weapons program and can’t verify that Moscow has destroyed its chemical weapons stockpiles as required under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
We have serious reasons to doubt that Ketanji Brown Jackson’s embrace of originalism this week accurately previews how she would approach cases on the Supreme Court.
