Jan 27, 2023
I remember watching the Amy Coney Barrett hearings when Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked her to lift up her notepad. She lifted it up, showing that the pad that had been provided for her was completely blank. Despite all the grilling she'd received, the endless "gotcha" questions from Democrats, and the endless number of precedents, she was able to cite and talk about them without any notes at all. Her impressive display of knowledge and aptitude that day stands in stark contrast to that of Ketanji Brown Jackson, who couldn't even define what a woman is, or Biden's judicial nominee Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren. Bjelkengren, nominated by Biden for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, embarrassed herself on Wednesday when she couldn't even answer Sen. John Kennedy's basic questions about the Constitution. "Judge, tell me what Article V of the Constitution does," Kennedy said. "Article V is not coming to mind