Conservative rains hell on ‘dishonest’ and ‘scummy’ Josh Hawley
Following the first day of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, conservative columnist Matt Lewis brought down the hammer on Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) for his attempted smears of the judge — going so far as to label the Missouri Republican as “scummy.”
“…the implication that [Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson] has a soft spot for ‘sex offenders’ who ‘prey on children’ because she argued against a severe mandatory-minimum prison sentence for the receipt and distribution of pornographic images is a smear,” which led Lewis to add, “It’s worth noting that such dishonest political attacks are, sadly, not uncommon.”
“It’s no surprise that the ambitious Mr. Hawley—the first Republican senator to announce he would object to certifying Joe Biden’s election, and who infamously gave a clenched-fist salute to Capitol protesters on Jan. 6 and then tried to monetize it—would make such a disrespectful allegation,” the conservative columnist cited a scathing appraisal of Hawley by National Review’s Andrew McCarthy — a former prosecutor himself.
“Ellmers is outraged precisely because he accepts the fact that a majority voted for Biden, that ‘authentic Americans’ have become the minority in a country which they are supposedly entitled to dominate. Here we have a striking glimpse of the depth of despair underlying the pervasive siege mentality on the right. What’s scandalous about the 2020 election, in this interpretation, is not that it was “stolen”, but that “un-American” forces straightforwardly won.”
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