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Strict Scrutiny

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CRT - I Can't Do It, Justice.

A lot of the hearings were devoted to this long list of cultural grievances that the Republicans on the committee seem to think will help them in the midterms or drive their base to the polls. These grievances did not have anything to do with Judge Jackson, frankly,Anything to do with reality, but that did not stop Republicans from focusing on them at nausea. They're taking books by Kendi and statements by Ellie Mistal and acting like she ghost wrote them because she's black. The subtext of these GOP complaints slash questions, slash non questions slash attacks was that because Judge Jackson is black, she is a radical and she is coming for white people Like this is false, this is inflammatory,

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