Fox News Host Confronts Tom Cotton Over Nazi Remark About Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Cotton’s absurd implication stems from a GOP line of attack focusing on Jackson’s time as a public defender representing Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of terrorism. As a public defender, Jackson was assigned her clients.“She was in the Federal Public Defender’s office,” Roberts told Cotton on Fox News’ “America Reports.” “She says she did not get to pick and choose her clients. This really is a matter of due process, and I’m wondering, why make that link between Judge Jackson and the Nazis and the Nuremberg trial?” In fact, the Supreme Court had ruled at the time that Guantanamo Bay detainees were entitled to habeas corpus rights because the U.S. exercised complete jurisdiction and control over the base.Jackson explained this during her hearings last month. She had also explained that she represented one of the detainees she’d represented as a public defender in private practice because the client was assigned to her firm, unbeknownst to her. She said she was asked to work on their case when the partners realized she had already represented that client. After days of hearings and interrogation from Republicans over her record, Jackson will likely earn enough votes to make history as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court by week’s end.She faced outlandish lines of questioning and attack from GOP senators, including being asked to define the word “woman” and being cast as “pro-pedophile” over her sentencing of defendants in crimes involving images of child sexual abuse.