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Sen. Kennedy recounts Kavanaugh hearings: It was ‘like the cantina bar scene out of Star Wars’
At the opening confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Monday, amid partisan mudslinging and an air of seriousness, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) brought up a scene from Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) with Barrett when talking about the treatment of then-nominee Brett Kavanaugh at his 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
“Now, look, judge. I’m not naive. I understand this thing can turn sour really fast, we all watched the hearings for Justice Kavanaugh,” the Louisiana senator said. “It was a freak show. It looked like the cantina bar scene out of Star Wars.”
“And, I know for someone who is unaccustomed to it, it hurts to be called a racist,” the senator continues. “I think it’s one of the worst things you can call an American. I know that it hurts to be called a white colonialist and I know it must hurt for someone of deep religious faith as yourself to be called a bigot.”
During the tumultuous Fall 2018 confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats accused him of past sexism due to allegations made by three women, most notably from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who accused him of sexual assault.
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In a clever reaction to President Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter, fact-checkers on Elon Musk’s X are flagging Biden’s old post stating “no one is above the law.” Biden’s old post, shared in May, was written as an attack on now-President-elect Donald Trump, but the tables have turned on Biden as he is being heavily criticized for his hypocrisy in placing his son “above the law.”
The New York Post reports:
“It now has a community warning readers: ‘President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for crimes covering nearly 11 years of ‘offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”
After that, Musk added his own proposed note calling out the president, writing: “By pardoning his son Hunter, not merely for a single crime, but for actual or potential crimes he may or may not have created over an eleven-year period, Joe Biden has made clear that some people are, in fact, above the law.”
According to the New York Post, “Hunter Biden, 54, pleaded guilty in September to nine counts tied to bilking Americans of $.1.4 million in taxes and was found guilty of three federal gun charges in June after he was charged with possession of a firearm while addicted to illegal drugs.”
Biden is not only being criticized for pardoning his Hunter, but for going back on his vow that he would not pardon his son. Biden argued in his defense that Hunter was “singled out only because he is my son,” The Post reports. Biden is hitting back saying that critics are only trying to break Hunter’s sobriety.
Musk shared a screenshot on X of his own fact-check with a statement saying “Community Notes slays.” Community Notes is a feature on X that allows users to flag false or misleading content, according to The Post, leaving the fact-checking up to its users rather than staffers.
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