It wasn’t a difficult thing to call: If Republicans didn’t agree that President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, had a sterling record written in the milk of human kindness, they were absolute wretches — and the liberal media outlets were going to cover up any warts the GOP might have exposed.
Thus came this story from The Associated Press on Friday: “Supreme Court nominee’s ‘empathy’ is flashpoint for Senate.” The “empathy” that was such a “flashpoint?” Questions about low sentences Jackson gave to child porn offenders and lenient treatment for Guantanamo Bay detainees. The first part is barely mentioned by the AP; the second, not at all.
(The report was the latest evidence that the media is in the tank for the Biden administration — particularly Jackson, whose record has been airbrushed to the point of hagiography. Here at The Western Journal, we’ve been giving readers the real story about her radical judicial philosophy and her troubling record of leniency — or “empathy,” as the AP might call it. You can help us bring America the truth by subscribing.)
The first paragraph in the AP’s Friday story stated straight-up what the slant was: “Empathy is not a quality many Republican senators want to see in the next Supreme Court justice.
“Traditionally considered an admirable attribute, the ability to empathize with another’s plight has become a touchstone for GOP opposition to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson,” it continued, before noting that the most human moment of the whole affair was New Jersey Democrat Sen. Cory Booker talking about the happiness Jackson brought him.