Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., told Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson that he would oppose on-camera Supreme Court proceedings because it could potentially lead to the moments of “jackassery” that he believes Congress performs in for televised moments.
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Dammmmm
This man is gone crazy his
This man and his mouth is crazy
Thank you Senator Sasse.
Ted Cruz .Cotton. and all of them are jackasses
She’ Will be Great
We already exist in a shallow society, where looks determine far too much. We are not grown up enough to trust our eyes. Isn’t Justice supposed to be blind?
Disgraceful attitude by the republican party,over this judge
Skin color and race mean everything and merit goes out the window 🪟
Cruz acted like a spoiled bully- jackassery. Considering his unwillingness to allow her to answer, it appears he was performing for the cameras. Gosh it was such an irritating, nail on the chalkboard, kind of performance.
The people will vote for him again despite his foolishness
@LucyCan what is a woman?
@John Smith l don’t know maybe you can tell me?
@LucyCan an adult female human
@John Smith thank you, that’s good to know
The GOP needs more like Sasse and Kinzinger if that party is to survive.
Republicans made a lot of new Democrats the last two days.
well look who showed back up
THank you, Sen. Sasse, well said & you were certainly The Adult for your Party in this hearing….but I still don’t trust you because of your unwillingness to be courageous during the tRUMP impeachment(S) & to denounce the ‘Jackassery’ of the Cancer of tRUMPism.
Thank you, Senator
The republican Senator, like many of People elected to Office, really don’t want to have to account for their Words OR the Tone of their words. They maybe able to ‘Walk Back Some of their Words but not their Tone”! The Judged cannot hide when their Decisions are subject to greater Secrecy.
Be Smart, be Well and Stay Safe Folks
That’s my senator 👏 I live in Omaha and I’m really proud of Benn Sasse.
He gives a lottle hope for the GOP
He’s great! Very thoughtful.
Hes a decent man. Ive watched some videos of him and he’s just one of a few that needs to stay in Congress. Respect!
Thank you sir!
The Jackassery was performed by the Republicans today. His point?
That was his point, that certain Repubs were being jackasses for the cameras on purpose, to further their own campaigns.
Pen and Pad can be used to show other than what actually happened. And WTF is he talking about? Do you only jackassery stuff would be coming from Cavanaugh and Barrett
Ben Sasse hits his clown peers with a cake 🎂🤣😂 on their faces( Cruz, cotex sorry Cotton, Hawley) are tre studges and they’re so waste persons that are more unnatural and lack of decency and credibility. High fist for the ones who brake the law on capitol but she is soft on crime
Jackassery! Love it
Guess Fake News Media and their elected clown are having harder time using the race shield…
Especially when it comes to real legitimate questions.
Wow, Senator Sasse, it is good to watch and listen to a grown up, even though a Republican, this is how politicians should behave no matter what party they represent.
Sad we have to celebrate the few and far between appearances of an articulate, decent Republican.
sasse has been pretty solid through the entire trump presidency.
And this is why even though we have different ideologies, I have bought and read 2 of his books. Very intellectual thinker.
He’s not wrong lol
Sasse couldn’t have summed this up better… Whether you are avDemocrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, kudos for Sasse for using his time to bring forth this as well as his being professional, kind, and level headed… (not that these shouldn’t be requirements of any public official let alone any human being.)
You mean the “Ted Cruzing”
If she passes we will all know the supremes court is diseased and Corrupted
Hmm, yes it was the late Senator Byrd’s specialty in determining and even prosecuting the level of corruption of judges at any level of government whether it was a local judge tampering with a jury by dismissing juries, postponing juries, court dates, or manipulating the outcome of a case by doing so, or even by not considering that the prosecution or dept. torturing an innocent person to intimidate witnesses, or even suspects, or coerce false testimony around falsified narratives, which is as heinous as the evidence of some cases, must be the type of Jackassery the American public doesn’t need in the Supreme Court, Congress, or Senate. ”
Sen. Ben Sasse;
“he would oppose on-camera Supreme Court proceedings because it could potentially lead to the moments of “jackassery” that he believes Congress performs in for televised moments”.
That was quite a performance of Jackassery Senator; what does the public need to know about any proceedings of Jackassery, that probably should remain silent, but not kept from public oversight or protest?
He makes a good point. But his point is kinda complicated and has deeper implications of both sides that are maybe a bit too hard to understand for the Facebook crowd who doesn’t have the time or education to necessarily fully appreciate the complexities of governance and its intersection with both capitalism and narcissism. Could you sum up your feelings and point in 10 words or less and let us know which party your knocking.
Are Republicans bad for or are Democrats bad?
Wow he certainly got it right. Finally a gentleman who puts country first.
The Republicans love to talk, don’t they!
He nailed it. TV cameras in the courtroom are a bad idea in practice.
#women #vaginas #men #penises
While I do applaud Sen Sasse’s mature take on the situation and the respect he afforded the Judge, I wonder where his voice was in all of the bills that were squashed by the repugnican’ts? He’s a repugnican’t and he tows the party line – obstruction, obstruction obstruction. That is sad, considering how even-keeled he seems to be.
Well done Sen. Sasse!
This poor woman shouldn’t even have to be questioned by any of these flunkies. She has the position and I am glad President Biden chose her. I feel for this poor woman.
These people are just being bullies.
Lol
Blackburn: Define woman.
Ketanji: I can’t.
😂🤣😂
10 points for Nebraska lol
Classic
I don’t know anything about Sasse, but that was an eloquent and informed discussion about cameras in the courtroom. He appears to be well-educated and articulate, not having fallen into the “stupid is the new GOP smart” bucket, made up mostly of Trump boot lickers. . Based on that alone I’m guessing he’s not a Trumper. If we have to have Republicans, please let them be normal like this guy at least seems to be.
Hes a decent man. He got on TV months ago and appolizied to his constituents stating hes not going with the big lie and understood him coming out saying that would hurt his chance of being elected for another term. Or something to that nature. Lol
I wonder which school these Repblican senators went to
Senator Sasse speaking for the Intelligence of the GOP. Glad the Jackassery was pointed by there own party 👍.
Of course you would say that, even us here on the right love it when the left eats its own.
If you listen to his whole statement you’ll know exactly how he’s going to vote he basically said when you are on the court which means he’s voting for her.
“Their…” Even dumb GOP’ers know the difference.
THEY DON’T WANT THAT QUEEN IN THAT POSITION
Good old jackassery
Thank you!. I felt like crying with what they were doing to her. And to see Ted Cruz litterally googled his own name afterwards too. Shameless.
Please get to the point Mr Boring….
If such is the case, the last guy we want to have in front of a camera is the senile, bumbling, fumbling, stumbling POTUS. We are now the laughing stock of the world.
Another fed soc trying g out for
BINGO!
trollops like wrong johnson, cancu crooooz, linseedoil greyham, marjorine taylor orange, annie oakley boebert are always looking for free air time for their political grandstanding
These events must be policed more strangly to disallow fools like cancun crooooz – with the ‘beard of greatness’ which covers just 10% of his stupidity – can be SHUT down by turning OFF their mics.
Good job, Sen. Cruz. It must be very tough trying to work with Democrats who only want to dismiss you all the time. They are extremely rude, especially when they have the majority. You were badly treated and not respected or listened to, but were bullied. The judge played an antagonistic role in not answering questions that involved not protecting our children enough from child molesters. I was frustrated with her dishonesty too.
🤔🙄 Lol You poor Thing 😂😂😂 you and All the rest of the Spineless do nothing for the American people Cowards but make us the laughing stalk of the world cry us a River
Wonder how I would feel if I were one of the victims in the five cases that Holley called out on national TV?
I’m a liberal AOC supporter. But I like what this guy says. 👍👍👍👍
Ted (Dr Pepper Diet Cola with no respect) Cruz & Lindsay (It should be My Way) Graham win the worst supporting and bi-partizan acting roles in a US Judicial Nomination Hearing by way of the most votes from the academy of The Golden Globe Awards. Both Ted & Lindsay should step down. The USA needs more people with morals and values like Sen. Sasse!
Well said Sen Sasse!
PONTIFICATION (wrong occasion though)
Why can’t the Republicans get behind a guy like Sasse and let us return to a 2 party system with adults at the top of the ticket on both sides. The country would be the beneficiary.
Ted and Ketanji at their Harvard class reunion: Ted, “I’m a Senator best known for my jackassery.” Ketanji, “I’m a Supreme Court Justice, because I took my education seriously.”
Jackassery is my new favorite word.
I really am liking the common sense of this guy.
I could not have said it any better. What I found eye catching was Ted Cruz’s faces when Senator Sasse called the performances of his peers as “jackassery.”
Jackassery = Ted Cruzery
Sasse please run for President in 2024
Jackassery indeed!
Points given for the best description given for his colleagues’ theatrics, but I’ll withhold my applause for Sasse until I see how he votes for this qualified SC candidate!
Sen Sasse says things like this that shows leadership, but some of his votes I gotta scratch my head.
I hope this new word makes it into the dictionary: “jackassery”!!!! LOL.
I have always said that I dont’t look down on republicans for merely being republicans. It’s how they conduct themselves that affords distaste towards a significant bunch of them. This guy I am sure there are lots of positions he takes that I disagree with but THIS, this sense of clarity, awareness he demonstrates is refreshing. His peers display this aura of seething wrongness when they are talking (hawley, graham, cruz) Sometimes I have to give myself pause from listening to them. Some indiviuals act like they are on a moral pedestal high above you when they are rolling around in the muck with their conduct. The overdramatic line of questioning for social media points was just a cringefest. The equivalent of the ideas of tictok videos for republican congressmen
What is that?
Jose biden voted AGAINST Judge Janice Rogers Brown twice…..biden should be ashamed of himself.
You could pick your side, but These great scholars in Congress do know quite a lot !
It’s just that they have chosen to Major in Acting for the Mainstream media and using Deception and Manipulation in order to get ahead ..
Putin = Trump
Trumpism is a support for Putin. Wake up and Lock Trump up and support freedom.
Stop The Steal – Don’t let Trumps steal our Democracy and make us like Russia!
Democracy will FAIL if Trump doesn’t get indicted!
DOJ Garland has promised to hold Trump insurrectionist accountable, but he has not.
NY DA Bragg is probably corrupt because he wont arrest trump for crimes braggs office has well documented.
Our government is infiltrated at all levels with Trumpist.
no major arrest for seditious conspiracy leaders. The disgraced former president Trump, Trumps chief of staff, and a gang of congressional members in the House and Senate continue to conspired to undermine American democracy.
we want accountability for the following –
1. meadows doesnt appear in front of commission that is contempt of congress… doj wont arrest him is unethical. he didn’t appear, what more evidence is needed? ……DOJ Failed
mark meadows says he lived in a n. Carolina mobile home he has never lived in. what would a multimillionaire be doing living in a mobile home…..what a cheat, but he is being investigated for this voter fraud crime.
2. “hang mike pence”…criminal threat……DOJ Failed
3. offering pardons… witness tampering……DOJ Failed
4. inciting violence Jan 6 ……DOJ Failed
5. ToiletGate – trump destroyed government documents and took secret documents home after losing his job! see presidential records act for details of the law he violated.
6. interfering with elections……DOJ Failed
7. contempt of congress……DOJ Failed
8. fake electors ……DOJ Failed
9. kelly ward and spouse and others, impersonating as government electors even after Barr and Pence said one could not do that……DOJ Failed
10. Jeffrey Clark – co-conspirator for trying to weaponized the department of justice to overturn the election
11. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act applies to what Trump did.
By summer time, Georgia will enter phase 2 of their prosecution efforts for election interference…… how slow.
12. also, what about enforcing the 14th amendment of the Constitution of the United States? get rid of Cawthorn under section 3 of the 14th Amendment
13. muller investigation……DOJ Failed…. statue of limitation expired!
14. Will New York speak with Trump under oath? No because of corruption. New York DOJ appears to be supporting Trumps so dont expect progress there!
alvin bragg is another DA that supports Trumpism. Trump committed a crime and is not being prosecuted. New York should remove bragg from office.
actions speak louder than speculation, at this time I am convinced Garland wont prosecute Trump or any top insurrectionist. Only time will reveal why! in time Trump will be mentally broken or dead and then this insurrection nonsense will slowly die too. how sad that some people get away with murder!
virgina thomas, wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas is an insurrectionist too. it was discovered that she was pushing for the election overthrow. Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist who’s married to Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed Trump’s White House chief of staff to pursue efforts to overturn the 2020 election
…
of all the Republicans Sasse makes sense 90% of the time Romney and Cheney makes sense 50% of the time. and the rest of them makes sense none of the time. its just a hateful clown party that backs insurrections now and MTG is the face of this disaster. what happened to you GOP?
Senator Sasse shows a trace of owning a backbone ….
Lol first thing Ted Cruz did after his statement was google himself and see if he was trending
He will be voted out anyway……doesn’t stand for Nebraskans
Republicans turned Georgia Blue and it’s not looking green no time soon, so Republicans are strangling voting rights! 🤣😂
Thanks Sasse for showing America how stupid the nazi republicans are.
the supreme court is already a jackassery .
imagine if you were a republican and this guy was your rep.
I love this Man hahhaha next to him it was sitting ted cruz 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Already is Thomas should resign
So maybe don’t televise the next SCOTUS hearings. GOP has shown they will just make a mockery of it and it gets more blatant , stupid and mean spirited every time. Turn the cameras off and they will crawl back under their rock.
Good job sir. Please keep up the good work. Thank you!
Intelectual discourse what that? Oh that use to be something that would take place in Congress and in the senate before the trump circus invaded
Kudos to him, sorry to see him retiring from Senate. I’m a democrat but I do like him!!! So well said, love the new word!!!!!
The mandatory round of applause for the republican stating the obvious, as usual.
Not many Republicans like him left.
Sasse too belongs to that jackassesery.
BS ..What’s wrong with cameras ??? Lik really . It’s transparency, and also we all know we carry our selves a certain way in the court room. Who’s joking around and laughing in front of a judge really.
Oh snap!
I love the term Jackassery!!! I was cracking up!!!🤣🤣🤣
Finally. A grown up. Ty Ben!!!
I’m so happy he has said for all to hear that cameras have made congress look like a stampeed of jackasses. With a few exceptions.
Something wrong here? A republican is making sense.
Greeting concerning the great leadership speaking to other leaderships listening to him and others with the same safeguard for others
This brings me to why I chose to ask a requested leadership somehow some way with what I know to be the most serious issue in America but never addressed by leaderships of it
What do I mean? Literacy for all people no matter the situation or circumstance for those that do not know it’s the same issues year after year with leadership being for oneself and not all
As a part-time student trying to learn as much as I can to be as articulate as possible with the grades I try to make with reading books and respecting universal languages spoken in the universe with English and the part of it that include sentences, comprehension, listening skills to others that speak very well as public speakers and know all of what is required after graduating with not only a self degree but, for all to communicate with each other in the English language
If there are leaders out there other than congress who do all the work for everyone with everything; is it too much to ask it request a communication system and how it’s needed in the most serious problem with literary learning and not a criticism because that is the language often used with requesting that literacy issues in America be resolved somehow somewhere with people who have these degrees for not only themselves but everyone
literature
Literary learning is needed to solve American problems
LITERACY issues are the issues of people not comprehending the most important communication needed for all people
I know there are people out there articulating the English language as intended for all to communicate with each for comprehending each other fir learn it
Can someone talk about the seriousness of LITERACY for all because it’s too many people who don’t care about learning it or teaching it because it’s the most serious problem in America, LITERACY for all…
If people with degrees could do something about it or ask congress to support others as they try to do something about it
Or ask a doctor of literacy skills to do something about too many people doing nothing about it or not caring about it at all, it not knowing what to do about it but it’s the LITERACY issues not being addressed by those with the degrees 🎓 for a reason, or I vote English requirements and all of its parts be given by congress only because too many people do not know it is literacy skills that needed for all…
Sincerely, their elephants 🐘 everywhere and those who speak for everyone because they refuse to address literacy issues
I try and could people who know these are facts about true issues Americans are having trouble with their decree holders too who claim they care but do not and its more than enough to contribute to it somehow with solutions to the need for literacy skills
Again, thank you but if some of those great degree holders could say it for those that think it’s another day at the office as they often do not think or care about literacy for all
My words can not explain the pain of not being able to contribute as I try because I am a part-time student with health conditions and I do not want to have the hate that comes with talking about it, as I do because it is the worse issue no one wants to talk about literacy
Are the other great people out there that can resolve the problem that is out of control and no one wants to meet it with its wrong
Literacy is the problem people who care
If someone could do something about people sweeping under the rug to not look bad themselves, their appreciation has merit too but not those who know what is going on and being said for people to address literacy for all, not just degree holders
Thank you, all who know what is being said and trying to support literacy for all because it’s needed in ways humanitarians are exhausted with repeating themselves and trying to ask other people for possible solutions
Thank you for those with them too long because literacy issues are out of control for all
Obviously we have to have cameras, nothing tells the truth like a video. He say writing it down or audio recording should be good enough, even though time after time again reports are falsified and sound can mysteriously be shut off or tampered with. You know how many cops got in trouble for falsifying reports, until a video services?? It Proves if you want the real truth, we have to allow true transparency, people are way to scandalous to trust them telling an accurate account.
I hope this means Senator Sasse will vote to confirm Judge Brown Jackson. He should after correctly calling out the gop jack*sses in the room.
Lying Ted is just to Mr, Sasse left and on another you should see poor Ted’s face just sitting there listening while Ted’s staff aid ? to Ted left is rolling his looking out of the corners of his eyes with a gleeful smile that says you got that right Mr. Sasse Or is it gee golly Ted did he nail you !