Ted Cruz’s SCOTUS hearing stunt blows up right in his fear-mongering face
Senator Ted Cruz put on quite the performance this week during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, including an attempt to tie Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Court, to the supposed dangers of “critical race theory.”During his questioning, Cruz held up several books “either assigned or recommended,” to students at a D.C.
prep school where the judge is on the board of trustees, as if they somehow proved Jackson’s viewpoints. Thanks to his stunt, at least two of the books are now bestsellers.“If you look at the Georgetown Day School’s curriculum, it is filled and overflowing with critical race theory,” Cruz said, highlighting a stack of books including Alex S.
Vitale’s The End of Policing.Related: Ketanji Brown Jackson handles Lindsey Graham like a boss during extremely stupid line of questioning“I have not reviewed any of those books, any of those ideas — they don’t come up in my work as a judge, which I am, respectfully, here to address,” Jackson responded.Sales of the book skyrocketed after the stunt, and as of Friday morning it’s number one in Amazon’s sociology of race relations category.“Thanks to Ted Cruz, The End of Policing is now the #1 Best Seller in Gov.
Social Policy,” Vitale tweeted, including a screenshot of the Amazon ranking.Thanks to Ted Cruz, The End of Policing is now the #1 Best Seller in Gov.
