Mitch McConnell’s Confederate Flag Photo Resurfaces, Wonder Why He Doesn’t Support Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson?

Is any­one sur­prised by these racist clowns?

Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has made it known that he will vote against con­firm­ing President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nom­i­nee Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman to sit on the nation’s high­est judi­cial bench.
As GOP leader in the U.S. Senate, McConnell’s announce­ment was not a sur­prise to many, although Jackson most like­ly will not need his vote. McConnell claimed on Twitter on March 24 that his deci­sion was non­par­ti­san. Some say it may be because of anoth­er bias.

I went into the Senate’s con­sid­er­a­tion of Judge Jackson’s nom­i­na­tion with an open mind,” McConnell said in a March 24 tweet. “But after study­ing the nominee’s record and watch­ing her per­for­mance this week, I can­not and will not sup­port Judge Jackson for a life­time appoint­ment to our high­est Court.” Jackson was ques­tioned about her vot­ing record and sen­tenc­ing prac­tices dur­ing three days of con­fir­ma­tion hear­ings. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz drilled Jackson about crit­i­cal race the­o­ry, which Jackson point­ed out does not relate to her work as a judge.
Cruz used the children’s book “Antiracist Baby” to ask Jackson if she thinks babies are racist. New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker applaud­ed Jackson for her resilience and grace dur­ing the ques­tion­ing and her accom­plish­ments. He brought the judge to tears as he high­light­ed the his­tor­i­cal sig­nif­i­cance of her nomination.

“I see my ances­tors and yours,” Booker said. “You have earned this spot. You are wor­thy. You are a great American.”
McConnell also voiced his oppo­si­tion on the Senate floor on the last day of the con­fir­ma­tion hear­ings, cit­ing Jackson’s non­com­mit­tal replies about whether she would sup­port a plan to add four seats to the bench. There are cur­rent­ly nine Supreme Court jus­tices. Jackson said the ques­tion is beyond “the prop­er role of a judge.”
“I assumed this would be an easy soft­ball for Judge Jackson, but it wasn’t,” McConnell said. “The nom­i­nee sug­gest­ed there are two legit­i­mate sides to the issue. She tes­ti­fied she has a view on the mat­ter but would not share it.”
Only Congress can expand the court through leg­is­la­tion. Some Democrats have pushed for the change.
McConnell also took issue with Jackson’s lack of pub­lished low­er court opin­ions in the last year. Jackson, who has been on an appeals court for only a year, report­ed­ly had pub­lished two, while oth­er recent nom­i­nees pub­lished hun­dreds lead­ing up to their nominations.

Nearly 6,000 peo­ple respond­ed to McConnell’s tweet. It was also liked by more than 45,000 peo­ple. A num­ber of peo­ple who respond­ed accused the Republican of lying about his impar­tial­i­ty. Several said they were not shocked about his deci­sion. When con­ser­v­a­tive Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, McConnell led Senate Republicans to block President Barrack Obama’s pick Merrick Garland from the bench with­out first hold­ing hearings.
McConnell argued that it was too close to the November 2016 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion to con­tin­ue the process. Pundits believe McConnell did not want the Democratic pres­i­dent to nom­i­nate a liberal.
McConnell, how­ev­er, speed­ed the con­fir­ma­tion of for­mer President Donald Trump’s pick Justice Amy Coney Barrett less than two months before the 2020 pres­i­den­tial election. 
Many sug­gest­ed racism was a fac­tor. More than a dozen Twitter users respond­ed to McConnell’s tweet with a pic­ture of him accept­ing a plac­ard in front of a Confederate flag. The pho­to was alleged­ly tak­en at a Sons of Confederate Veterans event in the ear­ly ’90s.