Leftist Chuck Schumer uses resurrection imagery on Easter Sunday to laud Ketanji Brown Jackson's SCOTUS confirmation: 'The stone has been rolled away'



Far-left U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) used resurrection imagery during an Easter Sunday church service to laud Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"The stone has been rolled away from the tomb," Schumer, who is Jewish, said from the pulpit at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn after spending several minutes praising Jackson, who will be the first black woman to sit on the high court.

What are the details?

Schumer began his sermon of sorts by addressing his "brothers and sisters" and saying "the last time we got together in person for Easter, it was 2019, I was still minority leader, Donald Trump was terrorizing New York and our nation with his hatred, his bigotry and lies, and little did we know what the future held in store for us. ... To sum it up, it's been a dark few years."

He continued, curiously, by saying, "But on this day, more than any other day, we remember God's promise to his people ... that was once thought lost will be redeemed and renewed and more glorious than ever before. That even in the darkest times, there are bright lights, and this month, folks, we witnessed one of the brightest that we hope is a metaphor, an indication, a good omen of more bright lights to come — the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!"

Schumer then spent several minutes praising Jackson, noting that her confirmation is "restoring balance to our judicial system that was thrown out of whack by Donald Trump and his vicious, nasty, and sometimes even outright racist [appointments] to the bench." Schumer then praised himself by saying he "made history by appointing for the time ever our three black U.S. attorneys in New York."

Schumer finished up by saying, "My brothers and sisters, in conclusion, this is what the changing of the seasons looks like. It looks like progress, it looks like growth, it looks like our everlasting struggle to perfect what was once imperfect. Lord knows it took too long to get here, but now that we're here, there's no going back. The stone has been rolled away from the tomb, and all those good things that we hoped and prayed for will come to pass. So happy Easter. God bless all of you."

Here's the clip, which starts as Schumer heads to the pulpit. He begins speaking about Jackson at the 3:45 mark and then uses resurrection imagery just after the 7-minute mark:

Chuck Schumer Lauds KBJ Vote From A.R. Bernard's Pulpit On Easter: "The Stone Has Been Rolled Away"youtu.be

How did folks react?

Those commenting on the video were astonished by Schumer's sermon:

  • "Words fail," one commenter wrote. "This is utter blasphemy."
  • "How can true believers put up with this idolatry[?]" another commenter wondered.
  • "I am speechless," another commenter said.
  • "This pulpit is literally shrouded in darkness," another commenter declared.

Earlier in the video, the church's pastor, A.R. Bernard, remarked that Schumer has come to the Christian Cultural Center "every Easter to share a greeting with you." That led another commenter to say, "No need to be united in Christ if you are united in politics I guess."

Wall Street Journal editorial board blames Trump for Ketanji Brown Jackson being confirmed to the SCOTUS



The Wall Street Journal editorial board argued in an opinion piece that former President Donald Trump was to blame for Democrats being able to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Democrats celebrated on Friday the confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson by a count of 53 votes for and 47 votes against her confirmation. Three Republicans joined the Democrats, but she would have been confirmed with a tie-breaker by Vice President Kamala Harris even if the vote had been 50-50 along partisan lines.

The editorial board argued that Trump's focus on delegitimizing the official election results took away from the effort to win two runoff elections determining Georgia's two Senate seats.

"Republicans shouldn't forget who is to blame for their predicament. If President Trump hadn't been preoccupied with imagined fraud conspiracies after the 2020 election, Republicans probably would have retained two Senate seats in the January 2021 Georgia runoff elections," wrote the board.

"Without Democratic Senate control, President Biden might have been forced to choose a more moderate nominee than Judge Jackson or possibly a jurist older than age 51, with a shorter prospective Supreme Court career," they added.

The board had previously argued in March, 2021, that the Republican party should leave Trump in the past after losing control of the Congress in the same election he lost the presidency. The former president fired back at the board in a scathing statement.

"The Wall Street Journal editorial page continues, knowingly, to fight for globalist policies such as bad trade deals, open borders, and endless wars that favor other countries and sell out our great American workers, and they fight for RINOS that have so badly hurt the Republican Party. That's where they are and that's where they will always be," said Trump.

"Fortunately, nobody cares much about The Wall Street Journal editorial anymore," he added. "They have lost great credibility."

Here's 'Morning Joe' commenting on the WSJ editorial:

WSJ: Trump Helped Pave The Way For Justice Jacksonwww.youtube.com

Mitt Romney will vote to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court despite voting against her last year



Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said that he would vote in favor of confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Romney posted a statement to his Twitter account on Monday after the nomination moved from the Judiciary Committee to a vote from the full U.S. Senate after a deadlock partisan vote.

"After reviewing Judge Jackson's record and testimony, I have concluded that she is a well-qualified jurist and a person of honor. While I do not expect to agree with every decision she may make on the Court, I believe that she more than meets the standard of excellence and integrity," said Romney.

"I congratulate Judge Jackson on her expected confirmation and look forward to her continued service to our nation," he added.

Romney was criticized last week when he said he was undecided on Jackson's nomination despite having voted against her nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last year. He explained that he would make a "much deeper dive" into her judicial opinions and judicial philosophy than what he did previously.

Romney's support for Jackson's nomination means she will more than likely be elevated to the Supreme Court since two other Republicans have already said they support her nomination: Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine.

In her statement about the nomination, Collins touted Jackson's "sterling academic and professional credentials" despite saying she would very likely disagree with some of Jackson's opinions.

President Joe Biden nominated Jackson to fill the seat that will be vacant after the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer later this year.

She is expected to be confirmed by the end of the week and become the first female African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Here's more about Jackson's nomination:

Senate panel deadlocks on Jackson; confirmation on trackwww.youtube.com

Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination gets partisan deadlock in judiciary committee and moves on to full vote in Senate



A vote in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee resulted in a partisan deadlock over the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Monday.

The decision will fall to a full vote in the U.S. Senate where only a simple majority of 51 votes is needed to move her confirmation forward.

All eleven Republicans voted against her nomination while all eleven Democrats voted for her nomination. The vote was the first tie for a Supreme Court nomination by the panel since 1991.

Republicans have pummeled Jackson during the Senate committee hearings on what they saw as leniency in cases involving child sex pornography. Democrats have openly accused Republicans of being motivated by racism in their criticism of Jackson, who would be the first female African-American member of the Supreme Court in history.

Many on the right also hammered away at Jackson after she said in an exchange with Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) that she was unable to "define" what a woman is because she was not a biologist.

Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska called Brown an "extraordinary person with an extraordinary American story," but said he could not vote for her because she "refused to claim any judicial philosophy" during her testimony.

"Although she explained originalism and textualism in some detail to the committee, Judge Jackson refused to embrace them or any other precise system of limits on the judicial role," Sasse explained.

Liberals reacted predictably to the news that all Republicans in the committee voted against Brown's nomination by accusing them of racism.

"Let’s be clear: no Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson not because she isn’t highly qualified (she is) or a lack of character (no) but because their base doesn’t want a Black woman with her views on SCOTUS," responded transgender activist Charlotte Clymer.

President Joe Biden nominated Brown to fill the seat to be vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer who will be retiring from the Supreme Court later this year.

Here's more about the nomination of Brown:

Senate committee deadlocks on sending Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to full votewww.youtube.com

Ted Cruz GRILLS Ketanji Brown Jackson on CRT. Twitter reacts: 'That's racist'



During Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) grilled Jackson about her views on critical race theory.

Jackson first denied ever having studied critical race theory and claimed it “doesn’t come up in the work that I do as a judge.”

"I've never studied critical race theory, and I've never used it. It doesn't come up in the work that I do as a judge," Jackson stated.

"With respect, I find that a curious statement," Cruz responded. He then read a quote from her saying that critical race theory is, in fact, part of her work as judge during a speech at the University of Chicago in 2015.

"[S]entencing is just plain interesting ... because it melds together myriad types of of law — criminal law ... constitutional law, [and] critical race theory ..." read Jackson's quote, according to Cruz.

"You described, in a speech to a law school, what you were doing as critical race theory," Cruz said. "So, I guess I would ask, what did you mean by that?"

Jackson said she was not talking about "sentencing" in her quote, but "sentencing policy," and repeated that "none of that relates to what I do as a judge."


.@tedcruz grills Judge Jackson on her stance on critical race theory.pic.twitter.com/RxXV22Zr4p
— MRCTV (@MRCTV) 1647975614


Cruz then moved on to discussing Ibram X. Kendi’s children’s book, “Antiracist Baby.” Jackson is on the Board of Trustees at Georgetown Day School — a private school in Washington, D.C. — that Cruz claims assigns Kendi's book to students as young as four years old.

Not \u201cin the library.\u201d ASSIGNED to kids aged 4-7.https://twitter.com/forbes/status/1506347875428614145\u00a0\u2026
— Ted Cruz (@Ted Cruz) 1647976978

Pointing out that in “Antiracist Baby” Kendi says children should confess when being racist, Cruz asked Jackson, “Do you agree with this book that’s being taught with kids that babies are racist?"

After a long pause, Jackson answered, “I do not believe that any child should be made to feel as though they are racist, or as though they are not valued, or that they are less than, that they are victims, that they are oppressors. I don’t believe in any of that.”

Quite a few folks on Twitter took exception to Cruz's line of questioning:

The libs: You can't talk about critical race theory outside of a legal context.\n\nCruz: OK, I'll ask a Supreme Court nominee about critical race theory.\n\nThe libs: No, that's racist.\n\nShould Cruz ask her about her high school yearbook?https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1506344710176219151\u00a0\u2026
— Max (@Max) 1647979902


Right? How dare he ask her about an actual legal theory. And clearly, Republicans only ask black people about CRT. Not like it was at the center of the VA governor's race between two white dudes.https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1506357317671043081\u00a0\u2026
— Bonchie (@Bonchie) 1647979610

Others took issue with Jackson's answers:

Ketanji Brown Jackson told @tedcruz she has "never studied critical race theory," but she has cited the founder of critical race theory, Derrick Bell, and endorsed its core concepts, including white privilege and intersectionality, in her speeches.\n\nShe is lying.pic.twitter.com/GPcrDdJlCQ
— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1647979246

Ted Cruz calls Dems' treatment of past GOP nominees 'explicitly racial' in thunderous opening statement during Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing



In a fiery opening statement at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) raked Democrats over the coals for their "explicitly racial" treatment of Republican judicial nominees.

"If you are Hispanic or African-American, and you dare depart from their political orthodoxy, they will crush you, they will attack you, they will slander you, they will filibuster you," Cruz told Jackson, who, if confirmed, would be the first black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Like several of his colleagues, Cruz pledged that Republicans would not turn the process into a "political circus," making pointed comments about how, "this will not be the kind of character smear that sadly our Democratic colleagues have gotten very good at."

He then dove into the history of the Senate Democrats and their character smears.

WATCH: Sen. Cruz’s opening statement in Jackson Supreme Court confirmation hearings www.youtube.com

"It is only one side of the aisle, the Democratic aisle, that went so into the gutter with Judge Robert Bork that they invented a new verb — to 'Bork' someone," Cruz said. He went on to attack the "reprehensible" treatment of Justice Clarence Thomas, quoting from a letter former President George H.W. Bush wrote describing the Democrats' treatment of Thomas as "just plain horrible ... They are trying to destroy a decent man."

"As Justice Thomas observed in that hearing, what happened there was, to use his words, a high-tech lynching. And I would note the chairman who presided over that disgrace was Joe Biden," Cruz said.

He called the confirmation hearing for Justice Brett Kavanaugh "one of the lowest moments in the history of this committee." He recounted how "Democrats on this committee sat on allegations, didn't refer them to the FBI, didn't ask for investigations, hid them and then leaked them. Against the wishes of the complainant." Then he mocked Democrats for having "Spartacus moments" and for featuring the testimony of "nuts" like Michael Avenatti, a former attorney and convicted fraudster.

"Judge Jackson, I can assure you that your hearing will feature none of that disgraceful behavior," Cruz said. "No one is going to inquire into your teenage dating habits. No one is going to ask you with mock severity, 'Do you like beer?'"

Cruz went on to say the Judiciary Committee has a "responsibility to focus on issues, to focus on your record, to focus on substance."

"It's not about race," Cruz added. "We will see Democrats and the media suggest that any senator that is skeptical of your nomination, that questions you vigorously, or that dares to vote against you must somehow harbor racial animus."

"I would note we are sitting on a committee where multiple members ... happily filibustered Judge Janice Rogers Brown, a very qualified African American woman nominated to the [United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit], precisely because they wanted to prevent Judge Brown from becoming Justice Brown," he continued.

Among those senators was then-Sen. Joe Biden, who worked with other Democrats to hold up Brown's nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court in 2003. A Democratic filibuster prevented Brown from being confirmed to the court for two years.

"The senior Democrats on this committee also filibustered Miguel Estrada, as the staff for [then-]Sen. Ted Kennedy [(D-Mass.)] said in writing at the time ... 'because he is Hispanic,'" Cruz said.

The Texas senator may have misspoken; it was an aide to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) who wrote in an email that liberal activists had “identified Miguel Estrada (D.C. Circuit) as especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment," according to a 2013 article in the Washington Examiner.

Cruz said that Jackson would be judged based on her record, and whether she would expand freedom as a judge or restrict freedom.