[See NewsBusters for more.] On Thursday’s New Day on CNN, host Brianna Keilar and chief national affairs analyst Kasie Hunt recapped the GOP’s performance at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings with accusations of racism, 2024 ambitions, and QAnon conspiracy theorizing.
During an interview with former Sen. Doug Jones, who is currently the White House’s nomination advisor for legislative affairs, Keilar wondered what he thinks of Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, “especially following the questioning she had of another black judicial nominee, Andre Mathis, she was making cognitive leaps that were really impossible to make about issues of race, and education, as she was questioning the judge. Did you see racism in any of that?”