Shannon Bream: Judge Jackson’s Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings Cannot Realistically Be Compared To The Kavanaugh Ones

Anchor of “Fox News At Night” Shannon Bream joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to share some of her takeaways from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Judge Jackson was questioned by lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. A few Democrats such as New Jersey Senator Cory Booker have claimed Republicans treated her unfairly. According to Shannon, these hearings were much tamer than the ones held for Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation in September of 2018.

“It was the very definition of a circus, and there were members on both sides of the aisle that I interviewed and talked with that week who could not get to and from their offices. They had police escorting them everywhere because it was wall to wall people chasing you onto your elevator, trying to keep you from getting to the floor to vote. That was just a different level, but I would say much of that was because of the public. But, we remember the Spartacus moment with Senator Cory Booker really trying to make a name for himself. Dick Durbin, who is the Democrat who chairs this committee, he gave an interview a few weeks ago before the thing, and he said, ‘Listen, I’ve got to remember I’ve got to wrangle these people’, because they have several people on this committee who have presidential ambitions. So even he knows that part of this is going to be a circus. So she got pressed pretty hard, I would say, by a couple of Senators who would not let it go. They wanted to demand answers from her. But I don’t think you could compare it to Kavanaugh, much more so because of the public element to that.”

Shannon also comments on President Biden seemingly calling for a regime change in Russia, and then walking back his comment. To hear what else she had to say, listen to the podcast!