This tweet’s a few days old, but it’s finally getting a proper airing Wednesday. The Miami Herald’s Bryan Lowry makes note of how he expects the New York Times ad placed by Demand Justice urging confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to come up during this week’s hearings. Demand Justice executive director Brian Fallon, defended the ad, saying the fact that Republicans might bring it up just confirms that they have no message against Jackson.
Decided to read the @nytimes editorial everyone is annoyed about and at the top of the page was greeted with a @WeDemandJustice ad backing Jackson. Expect this group's advertising on her behalf to come up in next week's hearings. pic.twitter.com/RjksmQHgUj
— Bryan Lowry (@BryanLowry3) March 18, 2022
Cornyn asked her about Demand Justice's support last year during the DC Circuit confirmation and McConnell devoted a floor speech to it this week.
— Bryan Lowry (@BryanLowry3) March 18, 2022
We have loudly urged the selection of civil rights lawyers, public defenders and labor lawyers since we started in '18. That Republicans plan to spend time bemoaning us next week just confirms Wash Post reporting today that they have no message against KBJhttps://t.co/3qRd35wcM4
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) March 18, 2022
It was brave of Fallon to stick his head out in public after writing this:
this you? pic.twitter.com/stgMagP9Xp
— Such is life (@vderzu) March 23, 2022
And “boofing”? Kavanaugh said it referred to “flatulence.” The answer prompted laughter in the hearing room, and Kavanaugh leveraged the moment to try to belittle the entire line of questioning. “You want to talk about flatulence at age 16 on a yearbook page?” he sneered at Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). “I’m game.”
Under normal circumstances, Kavanaugh might be right to consider it overreach for the world’s most deliberative body to be grilling a Supreme Court nominee about crude jokes in his high school yearbook.
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How’s the boofing investigation coming along?
— Chris Williams (@CMarshallWill) March 23, 2022
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https://twitter.com/sho_of_hands/status/1506722362317631488
Fallon didn’t get his wish that the FBI investigate the appearance of the word “boof” in Brett Kavanaugh’s high school yearbook, but Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse did take it very, very seriously, as he did the entire yearbook, which he still examines with a magnifying glass every night.
Does she like beer?
— rusty stonelake (@collectorgrid) March 23, 2022
As far as we know, no one has asked Jackson about Demand Justice or her high school yearbook.
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‘Straight-up character assassination’: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has posted a video insisting the Brett Kavanaugh investigation is not over https://t.co/TqIp8MnPUa
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 23, 2021
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