{"id":92406,"date":"2022-04-06T21:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/morning-joe-rips-tom-cottons-attack-on-kentanji-brown-jackson-a-wretched-display\/"},"modified":"2022-04-06T21:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T16:01:55","slug":"morning-joe-rips-tom-cottons-attack-on-kentanji-brown-jackson-a-wretched-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/morning-joe-rips-tom-cottons-attack-on-kentanji-brown-jackson-a-wretched-display\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Morning Joe’ Rips Tom Cotton’s Attack on Kentanji Brown Jackson: ‘A Wretched Display’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. Constitution was all Joe Scarborough needed to vaporize Republicans\u2019 latest attacks on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d hosts Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski unpacked the line of reasoning from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), who seemed to question Jackson\u2019s fitness as a U.S. Supreme Court nominee because she once \u201crepresented four terrorists as a public defender.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJoe\u201d played the full clip of Cotton\u2019s monologue from the Senate hearing: <\/p>\n

\u201cIn every one of those cases [Jackson] claimed the terrorists had never had any affiliation with the Taliban or Al Queada,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cIn every one of those cases she accused the Bush Administration and American soldiers of war crimes. One of her clients designed the prototype shoe bomb \u2026 another planned and executed a rocket attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan. A third was arrested on a raid on an Al Queada explosives training camp. Yet in every case she claimed they had nothing to do with terrorism \u2026 just goat herders who were picked up by marauding U.S. troops.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it was Cotton\u2019s final flourish that set off the \u201cJoe\u201d hosts.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know,\u201d Cotton said ominously, \u201cthe last Judge Jackson [Robert H. Jackson, who served 1941-1954] left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg to prosecute the case against the Nazis. \u2026 This Judge Jackson might have gone there to defend them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell,\u201d Scarborough said as the clip concluded, \u201cthat just made the ghost of Joe McCarthy blush.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Sean<\/p><\/div>\n

Scarborough didn\u2019t have to dig deep to demonstrate the disingenuous nature of Cotton\u2019s argument, noting that Jackson didn\u2019t choose to defend those detainees \u2014 she was assigned them as a federal public defender, never went to Guantanamo Bay to meet them, and each was eventually released without conviction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the way that it works in our Constitutional Republic, folks,\u201d Scarborough said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t know that, guess what? You can be forgiven for that because you\u2019re not a lawyer. But in the case of Tom Cotton, he has no excuses. He is twisting this so out of context. It is a wretched display for another Ivy League guy \u2026 acting stupid about what happens when you\u2019re a public defender, when you\u2019re assigned the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

And lest anyone attempt to minimize that bit of missing context, \u201cMorning Joe\u201d noted that it\u2019s a foundational piece of Republicans\u2019 favorite polestar: the U.S. Constitution. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou know why you\u2019re assigned those cases? Because the Constitution \u2014 which Republicans like Tom Cotton claim to defend,\u201d Scarborough said. \u201cHe knows better. That\u2019s what makes it so absolutely positively shameful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Constitution was all Joe Scarborough needed to vaporize Republicans\u2019 latest attacks on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. On Tuesday\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d hosts Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski unpacked the line of reasoning from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), who seemed to question Jackson\u2019s fitness as a U.S. Supreme Court nominee because she once \u201crepresented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":92407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1649260916_Morning-Joe-Rips-Tom-Cottons-Attack-on-Kentanji-Brown-Jackson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}