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On Thursday, now-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the Supreme Court. That was an event that surprised no one given it’s been obvious from the beginning of the process that she had the votes. In the end, three Republicans joined the tally, including Mitt Romney, who originally opposed her nomination to the DC Court of Appeals.

The White House set out to spin the confirmation as a massive day, not just in recorded history (because Brown Jackson is the first black woman on the nation’s highest court), but also in terms of tangibly changing the dynamics within the United States.

Color me extremely skeptical that the nation is going to look back on this moment as a ground-shaking event. It is not the 1960s anymore. A black woman being on the Supreme Court is a point of historical significance, but it is not actually a major accomplishment for a White House in the year 2022. There was no risk involved in nominating Brown Jackson, and the move was met with near-universal plaudits from the press. One day, there will be an Asian Supreme Court Justice, and that too won’t be especially remarkable in a modern context. Given that, there’s no reason to think this is a turning point in the country regarding…well, just about anything.

Rather, all the overblown pomp and circumstance feels highly manufactured. The Biden administration is desperate for a win because everything else around them has continued to collapse. Pretending that they just blitzed the beaches of Normandy to get Brown Jackson’s nomination through is all they’ve got.

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Thus, we are left with deranged delusions such as this, where Biden asserts that Brown Jackson was “verbally abused” during her confirmation hearing.

This is like riding around in a wheelchair for fun or wearing glasses without lenses in them. It’s an appropriation of the turmoil nominees who were actually abused had to go through. Brown Jackson was treated with more respect and with a gentler touch than each of the last three Supreme Court nominees before the Senate. That’s undebatable. Even Neil Gorsuch faced tougher questioning and stronger attempts to scuttle his nomination.

And do I really even need to spend time rehashing what Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett went through? The former was falsely accused of gang rape in a months-long Democrat free-for-all. The latter was said to be disqualified because of her religion and was attacked for having adopted black children.

What did Brown Jackson have to answer for? The fact that she inexplicably had a pattern of going soft on pedophiles, specifically dealing with child pornography. In other words, even in the midst of the biggest amount of pushback Republicans tried, things remained focused on her actual record. She was not abused. She wasn’t interrupted any more than any other nominee is interrupted. To suggest such is basically stolen valor at this point.

Brown Jackson has led an incredibly privileged life. She was born to a wealthy family, went to Harvard, and has now made it all the way to the Supreme Court. Those who want to celebrate her rise are welcome to do so. But to act as if she survived an unspeakable onslaught to get there? Come on, no one is buying that. After all, it was Democrats who destroyed the nomination process for the Supreme Court. Further, Joe Biden, who pioneered smearing nominees with his treatment of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas, possesses less high ground than anyone to complain about the process.

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