From Ketanji Brown Jackson claiming you need a degree in biology to know what a "woman" is to Sen. Cory Booker channeling his inner Shakespeare, this week's Senate hearings to confirm Joe Biden's SCOTUS pick were nothing short of a circus - and one full of clowns.
Here are just a few of the wildest moments from the charade.
1. Jackson can’t say what a “woman” is, noting that she’s not a biologist.
Do you also have to be a meteorologist to know what rain is?
— CNSNews (@cnsnews) March 23, 2022
Sen. @MarshaBlackburn: Can you provide the definition of a 'woman'?
Judge Jackson: I can't. pic.twitter.com/r5nmNvJKcj
2. Jackson claims Roe v. Wade is “settled law” concerning the right to murder a preborn human baby.
In fact, it’s not – in fact, both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey both face being overturned in upcoming Supreme Court decisions. And anyone about to sit on the Supreme Court should know that.
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on abortion cases:
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) March 22, 2022
"Roe and Casey are the settled law of the Supreme Court concerning the right to terminate a woman's pregnancy. They have established a framework that the court has reaffirmed." https://t.co/cxOECWPc3g pic.twitter.com/4HRSTm7DIS
3. Spartacus at it again.
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker went on a bizarrely enthusiastic tirade Wednesday praising Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, channeling his inner Broadway performer in a monologue about immigration and diversity that had a lot more to do with his own grandstanding than anything Jackson had done.
It was…weird.
— MRCTV (@mrctv) March 23, 2022
*cue the Cory Booker tears* pic.twitter.com/lRy50KviOi
4. When she apparently didn’t know that CRT was taught in the elite private school where she serves on the Board of Trustees.
Sen. @tedcruz challenges Judge Jackson for the curriculum of a school she is a current board member of. pic.twitter.com/DMOxRLubPU
— MRCTV (@mrctv) March 22, 2022
5. When Jackson said she had “never studied Critical Race Theory."
This, despite having praised the father of CRT, Derrick Bell, and having claimed to have “drawn heavily” from the work of Bell’s wife, Janet, also an avid proponent of CRT.
.@tedcruz grills Judge Jackson on her stance on critical race theory. pic.twitter.com/RxXV22Zr4p
— MRCTV (@mrctv) March 22, 2022
6. This tense moment...
...when Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin literally cut Sen. Ted Cruz off so Jackson wouldn't have to answer his question.
WATCH: Sen. @tedcruz gets into a fiery exchange with @SenatorDurbin:
— MRCTV (@mrctv) March 23, 2022
"Chairman Durbin, I have never seen the chairman refuse to allow a witness to answer a question." pic.twitter.com/bi5XZ2fKDa