Fox News Anchor Suggests Tom Cotton’s Ketanji Brown Jackson Nazi Comparison Was a ‘Bridge Too Far’
thewrap.comsuggested Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton went a “bridge too far” in stating that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson would have defended Nazi war criminals on trial at Nuremberg.
On Tuesday, Cotton took to the Senate floor during Jackson’s confirmation hearings to slam her track record as a public defender.
A point of contention among many far-right Republicans, he took issue with her representing four suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay and who have since been released without conviction. “You know, the last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg to prosecute the case against the Nazis,” Cotton said in the hearings, referring to Robert H.
Jackson, who served 1941-1954. “This Judge Jackson might have gone there to defend them.”Naturally, the senator’s remarks were met with widespread criticism from such organizations as the Anti-Defamation League, who called it “reprehensible” and “trivializing the Holocaust.” “[Cotton] is twisting this so out of context.
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