Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed to SCOTUS Despite GOP Smear Attempts
marriage equality — which she supports — and tried to paint her as soft on crime due to her sentences in child pornography cases, although legal analysts said the sentences she handed down were within accepted parameters.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene even smeared the three Republicans who supported Jackson as “pro-pedophile” and called the Democrats “the party of pedophiles.”Jackson had the backing of LGBTQ+ and other civil rights groups after President Joe Biden announced her nomination to the court, and they are hailing her confirmation.
Even though she had once sat on the board of a private school that had an antigay statement on its website, she was a supporter of LGBTQ+ equality.
She once said she was primarily working on fundraising plans for the school and didn’t know about the antigay statement.“We are thrilled to join in the celebration today of the historic and bipartisan confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S.
