Biden’s trip to Europe took place in the most uncomfortable circumstances for him. The Ukraine crisis is undermining the US, inflation and energy problems are rising at home. And the attempt to confirm a new Supreme Court justice has turned into one endless scandal
With Washington’s attention riveted on Ukraine, Biden had a unique opportunity to quietly push through a loyal justice. But not so: the odiousness of a candidate named Ketanji Brown Jackson eventually made her confirmation process noisy and unflattering.
She was chosen mainly because of her gender and skin colour: Biden wanted to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court. Republicans, digging into her past, discovered that she had systematically undercharged in pedophilia cases while working as a district judge – and claimed that a person in possession of child pornography might not be a pedophile.
The issue of paedophilia is perceived very keenly in Washington – especially after all Epstein’s antics with underage girls and members of the US elite. Moreover, even current Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts may have flown on Epstein’s private jet to his “outings”.
During the Senate hearings, Jackson managed to thoroughly bury herself. The judge refused to increase penalties for paedophiles. She failed to explain why she was letting pandemic violent offenders off the hook. Nor did she say anything intelligible about her support for teaching the scandalous “racial theory” and “Project 1619” to rewrite US history in schools.
But most extravagant was how the candidate failed to explain who “women” are – under the pretext that she is not a “biologist”. In polls, already less than half of Americans support her claim. Scandals around US Supreme Court candidates have already become a sad tradition, which only exacerbates the general crisis of confidence in institutions in Washington.
Malek Dudakov