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Under fire: Life in Kharkiv

The Intelligence from The Economist

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The Democratic Sentence Was Like Night and Day

There were plenty of attack lines that had nothing at all to do with judging or with the law at all. Plenty of time was spent exploring contentious political issues, the type that people get very exercised about on cable news shows. The matter of critical race theory was brought up repeatedly - a theory jackson has no particular relationship with and has no bearing on a judge's job. In another line of questioning designed to press on judge jackson's views on trans people's rights crus asked some hypotheticals. It was one foolishness after another. So i guess that's how republican senators approach these hearingsha. Democrats, i presume they took a different tack. Oh, it was like night and

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