Ricky Gervais Reveals What Joke He Would Have Told About Jada Smith on Oscar Night –

  RedState

Chris Rock is one of the most successful and respected comics of the last 25 years and he told a mild joke last night about Will Smith’s wife, Jada. Make no mistake about it, that was a mild joke because if Rock had wanted to, he could have gone into the infidelity that Jada has admitted to in their marriage.

So if anyone thinks that Chris Rock’s peers are going to sit by and allow one of their own to be attacked over a joke, you are going to watch a magnificent display of how good comics can dissect you in a heartbeat. I’m not talking just about big names either — you are going to have up-and-comers, people who are somewhat known, all dive in on how Smith totally overreacted to this joke.

There is no escaping the verbal arse-kicking Will Smith is now going to take and he deserves every bit of it.

" This is exactly what I was talking about in my post above, anticipating comics were going to start to unload on the award-winning actor. There is way too much material about the off-the-wall stuff that Will and Jada Smith have talked about and done for it not to be open season on them after Will attacked a beloved comedian. This is further proof in my mind to answer the question of Brandon’s video above — that this was not a fake event, but that Will Smith acted irrationally and is going to suffer humiliation at the hands of professional and amateur comics for the rest of his life and beyond.

"Ricky Gervais reveals in one single line that cuts to the heart of the matter of how all these wackjobs in Hollywood act and how they see themselves. Gervais did this at the Golden Globes a couple of years ago, where the last part of his opening act absolutely destroyed Hollywood and their detachment from reality. So it is no surprise that he focused on the one really odd thing about Will and Jadas’ relationship (being in an open marriage), which puts into perspective Will Smith’s thin-skinned reaction to a joke about hair.

"The dude is a broken man.

"Now that Ricky has kicked open the gate of ridicule I look forward to what else is coming in the next days and months about this lunacy."

The Left's Reaction to Will Smith's Slap Attack on Chris Rock at the Oscars Is Nothing New (townhall.com)   "In the name of alopecia, we shall slap you silly. It's just amusing. The folks who say that "words are violence" or "silence is violence" are now cheering on actual violence. What we saw last night was assault and battery. ". . .

We knew this all along!

(1) Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) / Twitter

Experts: Will Smith Is 'Damaged Goods,' His Brand 'Forever Tarnished' (breitbart.com)

Why the Madness of Democrats?

 

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The Weakest Presidential Line Of Succession Ever – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)   "As Vladimir Putin floats terrifying hints of Russia’s willingness to use nuclear weapons against countries that assist in Ukraine’s defense against Moscow’s brutal invasion, the United States is saddled with a president teetering on the brink of senility, and a woman one heartbeat away from the presidency who is as dependably incompetent as she is undependable in prepping herself on national and international issues.

"Polling makes clear that the public is fully aware of, and disconcerted by, the alarming shortcomings of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris alike; but at the same time, there is little if any appreciation of the unprecedented vulnerability to the United States due to those further down in the line of succession. Old age, timidity, and lack of qualification abound among those who might be thrust into the job of most powerful individual on earth, charged with leading the free world.". . .

Why the Madness of Democrats? Part 1 | Scragged   "Democrat misgovernance seems not to make sense, so what are we missing?"  July 22, 2020

. . ."Today we are met with an even more vexing problem: why are blue-state politicians taking actions that are patently insane from an electoral point of view?  What could possibly be the curious motivations of blue state governors and mayors as they order their police departments not to stop the current plague of BLM riots that are turning their cities into bombed-out wastelands?

"It's normally a safe assumption that elected officials not only want to be re-elected, they desire to move to higher office.  It's been said that when any state governor looks in a mirror, a future President of the United States looks back, and many mayors and prosecutors have become governors.

"Instead of building resumes suitable for advancement, we see blue state officials responding to the widespread Black Lives Matter riots according to a pattern which apparently goes against their interest in winning the coming November elections.  We see as them acting against their own apparent best interests, just as Mr. Frank thought Kansas voters acted against their interests.  Like Mr. Frank, we'll offer explanations; perhaps we'll do better than he did in coming up with sensible ones.". . .

Why the Madness of Democrats? Part 2 | Scragged. . .

Why the Madness of Democrats? Part 3 | Scragged. . .

The seeds of today’s madness were planted decades ago – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman

"Political journalist Doug Ross yesterday re-posted an essay he had written a decade ago, which had successfully predicted the crime wave we are undergoing today.". . .

. . .

Obama and his Democrat sycophants in Congress will have created hundreds of thousands of single-parent families. These kids, born out-of-wedlock, will find themselves trapped in lives of criminality at far higher rates than kids from two-parent families.

Fast forward a dozen years, give or take a couple, and we will see a true Obama Crime Wave. I predict that we will see an unprecedented increase in crime. In fact, you could call it historic.

And the question is not whether it will happen. The question is just how bad it will be.

"Ross’s prediction in 2011 was of course guaranteed to be right, as good social science research since the early and mid-twentieth century had shown that if you raise children in broken homes, chaos ensues when they reach adulthood.

"I think however that Ross and most previous researchers have missed half the equation. Broken homes certainly produce adults who don’t know right from wrong, and thus become hardened and violent criminals.

"However, broken homes also produce adults who become politicians and lawyers and entertainers and businessmen, and though these individuals might not be violent criminals, they themselves no longer can conceive and put forth policies that encourage the rule of law and a truly just society. We can see this fact in the effort during the past two years by Democratic Party politicians to “defund the police” and to eliminate all bail, thus giving criminals a free rein in the states and cities run by Democrats. These politicians might sincerely believe these policies will reduce crime, but they do so because they themselves no longer have good judgment. They have been raised in a society of broken homes, and carry with them that curse into adulthood.". . .

"The worst aspect of this social tragedy is its long term consequences. You can’t fix this by simply ending the bad social policies from the past. The adults raised under them still exist, and still do not have the emotional training to build a civilized world, or even maintain a secure two-parent family for their own children. Their children are likely going to be broken as well, no matter what the government policy. Chaos will remain, and it will continue to wreck its havoc for many more decades.". . .

Cartoons - American Thinker

More madness from the left:  ABC's Hostin: Biden Should Govern via Executive Order -- 'You Can't Build Consensus with Crazy People' (breitbart.com)

I feel dumber just from reading about these people on "The View". TD

Say what? Kamala Harris tosses word salad after meeting Jamaican prime minister

 Say what? Kamala Harris tosses word salad after meeting Jamaican prime minister | Washington Examiner

The Republican National Committee tweeted a clip of Harris's comments, which Twitter users promptly deemed gibberish.

KAMALA HARRIS STUCK IN THE 'PASSAGE OF TIME'

"Oh Boy," tweeted Grace Vazquez. "Her term papers in college must have been a blast to read. 'While the effort to assist is essential, our effort in assisting will be of the most essential!'”

"Damn! Poor Jamaica!" tweeted a user under the handle Nithyanand. "After this speech, administration released a caveat that assistance will only be provided if they understood and can explain back what the Vice President said!"

"She has convinced herself that everything she says is deeply profound," wrote MrHoneyStinger under a YouTube posting of the clip by the GOP War Room.

Harris, whose communications team has seen near-constant turnover and who has been plagued by White House whispers that she doesn't prepare for assignments, prompted head-scratching earlier this month with a bizarre ramble in Louisiana.

"We were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right?" Harris said while promoting internet access in rural areas. "The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to passage of time. There is such great significance to the passage of time when you think of a day in the life of our children."

Slapgate 2022; UPDATED

 Colbert Wants Peter Doocy Slapped For Asking Wrong Questions – PJ Media 

Yes, it has come to this: Leftists are so open now about their authoritarianism and determination to crush dissent that Colbert got applause for saying that the president of the United States should physically assault a reporter for asking him questions he didn’t like.

The Slap Heard Around the World – PJ Media  . . ."We can hope that Will Smith’s slap remains an aberration; a country in which comedians are regularly assaulted for making jokes will soon be a rather humorless place. But unless Americans are willing to reestablish the hard barrier between words and violence, we will become a far more silent and far more violent nation."

Oscars co-host Wanda Sykes slams Academy for allowing Will Smith to stay after slapping Chris Rock | Daily Mail Online She was traumatized by the incident. TRAUMATIZED, I tell you!

UPDATE: Oscars bosses are accused of LYING about asking Will Smith to leave ceremony after he assaulted Chris Rock: Whoopi Goldberg claims there were fears 'manic' star would be filmed 'struggling' with security   . . ."On Thursday, conflicting accounts emerged of Sunday night's drama. Sources close to the star told TMZ that Oscars producer Will Packer had directly approached Smith and told him 'We do not want you to leave,' after he slapped host Chris Rock for joking about Smith's wife Jada.

"But an official Academy statement claimed that Smith had in fact been asked to leave. And speaking on The View Thursday morning, Goldberg said she knew why no attempt had been made to forcibly remove Smith over the attack.

"Goldberg said Academy bosses feared Smith was having a 'manic' episode and feared that any attempts to forcibly remove him could have resulted in an on-camera struggle. 

"But according to TMZ, Oscars producer Packer told Smith he could remain at around 8pm, about 35 minutes after the slap and just five minutes before the actor won his first Academy Award for his role in King Richard.". . . 

Yet as the gravity of the situation became clear, Smith then posted a public apology to Instagram 24 hours after the ceremony, saying he wanted to say sorry formally to Rock.

He said his behavior was 'unacceptable and inexcusable' and left him 'embarrassed'.

'I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris,' he wrote.

'I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. 

'There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.' 

Kindness? You mean this? 

'Where do I get my reputation back?' Trump celebrates as FEC FINES Hillary Clinton

Republicans, please always be better than these people. There is evil growing in our nation and the Democrat Party is its enabler. TD

 FEC FINES Hillary Clinton and the DNC for paying firm who produced the Steele dossier | Daily Mail Online  "Former Donald Trump on Wednesday accused his 2016 opponent of trying to 'illegally destroy' his campaign after it emerged that regulators had fined Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee of failing to properly disclose spending on the controversial Steele dossier. 

"Trump used the findings to repeat his attacks on a slew of enemies that he listed in a lawsuit last week.  

"Payments by the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C. to a law firm, he said, were 'a guise to hire numerous companies, all of whom are now named defendants in my lawsuit, to try and take down and illegally destroy your favorite president, me,' he said in an emailed statement

" 'This was done to create, as I have stated many times, and is now confirmed, a hoax funded by the DNC and the Clinton Campaign. 

" 'This corruption is only beginning to be revealed, is un-American, and must never be allowed to happen again. Where do I go to get my reputation back?'

"Details of the F.E.C. fines emerged on Wednesday, allowing Trump to return to one of his favorite topics: The way he was accused of links to Russia in the 2016, and the start of what he describes as a 'witch hunt.' 

"A letter sent to a conservative group that requested an inquiry, and were first published by the Washington Examiner, showed that the D.N.C. was fined $105,000 and the Clinton campaign was fined $8,000.". . .

FINALLY: Finding Holds DNC and Hillary Clinton Campaign Accountable for Dossier Hoax – RedState  "We may be in uncharted territory here. After everything that the Clintons have done in their lives, there’s finally an official finding that is holding them accountable. I’m not sure that I ever thought I would see the day, but here we are — and it’s a significant finding on behalf of the truth.

"The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has fined the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign for lying about th funding behind the Steele dossier that they used to try to spread the Russia collusion hoax. The dossier was then used to smear Donald Trump and fuel an FBI investigation that surveilled the Trump team. There probably has not been anything in history that has been so wrong and so damaging to the country against a political opponent.". . .

Disney vs. DeSantis

 

And the common sense award goes to Governor DeSantis - American Thinker   . . ."Yes, common sense, such as keeping seven-year-olds from sexual lectures by perverse teachers.  It makes so much sense that parents support the idea, but the "wokes" call it discrimination.

"We saw parents overthrow a Democrat-led government in Virginia.  School boards are suddenly the hottest thing from coast to coast.

"How many more will be overthrown by parents calling for common sense before the Democrat party locks up the wokes?

"The answer is blowing in the storm coming in November.  In the meantime, the fellow from Florida got lots of applause for signing a law that makes a lot of sense."

New Poll Crushes Democrats’ Dreams of Ousting Ron DeSantis – PJ Media   "Probably nothing would please Democrats more than to end Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s political career before he sets his sights on running for president. DeSantis only narrowly defeated Andrew Gillum in the 2018 midterm-year election but has since become a rising star in the GOP and a political force to be reckoned with due to his stellar leadership during the pandemic and his willingness to take on big issues.

"The media can’t stand DeSantis and have tried aggressively to take him down with bogus attacks. One might think that the constant attacks from the press would have hurt him as he runs for reelection, but a new poll says DeSantis is crushing the competition — and it’s not even close.". . .

According to a poll of Florida residents by the Saint Leo University Polling Institute, DeSantis leads Democrat Nikki Fried, the state’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 50.6% to 27%, with 22.4% undecided.

 Shut Up, Mickey: Disney Vows to Fight DeSantis in Court While a Fourth-Grade Teacher Is Arrested for Attempted Child Rape – PJ Media   

   Wow. You can almost see those letters in gold, moving vertically over a starfield while a symphonic theme stirs feelings of rebellion against a repressive regime….

There are, however, some problems with that notion.

1) As anyone with brains enough not to watch the Oscars can tell you, Disney is part of the oppressive regime.

2) The “Don’t Say Gay” bill, as leftists and cloistered elites like calling it, literally does not say “gay.”. . .

Florida: DeSantis Builds Massive Re-Election Lead, Torches 'Woke' Disney Executives (townhall.com) 

👀 DeSantis shoots across @Disney's bow:

"They overstepped their bounds...They do not run this state...California corporate executives...think that whatever they want in Florida, they get. That may have been true in the past. That is not true now."https://t.co/3c2ZFAwsUF

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 30, 2022

 Megyn Kelly sends a blistering message to Disney following company's 'gay agenda' video leak: 'They're no longer the Disney of yesterday' - TheBlaze

Kelly added that it's high time parents understood the type of content Disney is gearing up to serve their children and called on them to closely vet what their charges are consuming.

“Don’t put a Disney movie on in front of your kid before you fully come to understand what it’s going to be promoting, who it’s going to be starring, and what agenda they’re pushing," she warned. "They’re no longer the Disney of yesterday."

The Trickle-Down Genius of Ron DeSantis – PJ Media "It’s one very easy thing to tell a pollster that, sure, you approve of the governor who avoided most of the COVID madness and signed popular legislation to prevent grown adults from engaging in frank sex talk with second-graders.

"It’s quite another, more difficult thing, to get registered to vote with a particular party or even change your lifelong party affiliation.

"But that’s exactly what residents of Ron DeSantis’ Florida are doing — and in numbers too big to ignore.

"A March surge of GOP registrations has widened the party’s lead, first won just last year. A spokesperson for the DeSantis campaign told Fox News this week that the surge in GOP registrations gives Republicans an advantage of over 101,000 voters.

"When DeSantis was first sworn in back in 2019, Democrats led by 255,000. That’s a massive swing. Republican registrations have outpaced Democrats by more than 350,000 in just 29 months.". . .

 

Disney Exec Admits Implementing ‘Not-at-All-Secret Gay Agenda’ in Children’s Programming

Legal Insurrection   "Can’t we just let kids be kids?

"Instead of teaching children how to be polite, numbers, colors, and singing, Disney wants to push gender theory to the front for young children.

"Why is it so important to these people that 5-year-olds know anything about sex? If you’ve watched the new Mickey Mouse Clubhouse you cannot even tell that Mickey and Minnie are a couple or Daisy and Donald.

"Christopher Rufo posted videos of a Disney employee meeting. They admitted their top priority is gender theory in children’s programming.

"I included transcripts where I could. You don’t need any commentary. Just watch the videos.". . .

SCOOP: Disney production coordinator Allen March says his team is committed to "exploring queer stories" and has created a "tracker" to make sure they are creating enough "gender nonconforming characters," "canonical trans characters," and "canonical bisexual characters." pic.twitter.com/ddSzw4aqQv

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022

From this Mother of the Year:

. . .Burke: “I’m here as a mother of two queer children, actually, one transgender child, and one pansexual child and — and also as a leader. And that was the thing that really got me because I have heard so much from so many of my colleagues over the course of the last couple of weeks, in open forums, and through emails and phone conversations. And I feel a responsibility to speak, not just for myself, but for them. To all of us, we had a — we had an open forum last week at 20th, where, again, the home of really incredible, groundbreaking LGBTQIA stories over the years, where one of our execs stood up and said, ‘You know, we only have a handful of queer leads in our content.’ And I went, ‘What? That can’t be true!’ And I — and I — and I realized, ‘Oh, it actually is true.’ We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories, and — and — and yet, we don’t have enough leads and narratives in which gay characters just — just get to be characters and — and not have to be about gay stories. And so that’s been very eye-opening for me.' ”. . .

What IS a Woman?

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

Are You A Woman? 12 Signs To Look For | The Babylon Bee  "What is a woman? Nobody knows—not even Supreme Court nominees. But we've come up with a few key indicators to look for. Run through this list and keep track of how many "yes" answers you come up with. The more affirmatives, the more likely you're a chick!

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1. Are you always cold?

2. Has a human ever popped out of you?

3. Have you ever decorated a bed with six or more pillows?

4. Can you tell the difference between cream white and rustic farmhouse white?

5. Have you run into a curb in the past 24 hours? Be honest, CAROL.

6. DO YOU BLEED? Like, for an extended period of time at regular intervals?

7. Does it take you over three hours to decide what you want to eat?

8. Are you currently a member of at least three pyramid schemes?

9. Do you find simple movie plots hard to follow?

10. Do you frequently describe your emotional state as "fine" when you are not in fact fine?

11. Is your Starbucks drink order anything other than black coffee?

12. Do you have two X chromosomes?. . .More...

Pro-Crime Party Nominates a Justice

 Ann Coulter  "Presidents are entitled to nominate Supreme Court justices who represent their party and its values. Using that as our guide, President Joe Biden picked the Democrats’ perfect Supreme Court justice: Ketanji Brown Jackson.

"If you’d given me a thousand bucks to come up with a question that would stump a Supreme Court nominee, I never would have thought of: What’s a woman?

"Democratic values.

"As Sens. Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham amply demonstrated at the nomination hearings last week, Judge Jackson really likes defendants in child pornography cases. She’s partial to all criminals, but the child porn cases make the point bracingly.

"In seven out of seven child pornography cases that came before Judge Jackson, where the sentencing was up to the judge, she imposed sentences that were a fraction of those recommended under the sentencing guidelines. In all seven cases, her sentences were also far below those requested by the prosecutor.

"Not 2 1/2 years, instead of three — more like three months instead of 10 years. In United States v. Hawkins, the defendant possessed and distributed multiple images of child abuse of kids, including photos of prepubescent boys engaging in oral and anal sex, a video of an 8-year-old boy masturbating, and one of an 11-year-old boy being anally penetrated by an adult man.

"The federal sentencing guidelines recommended eight to 10 years. Judge Jackson sentenced the defendant to three months.

"Yes, yes, he was only 18, and he was remorseful. Good for him!

"But Judge Jackson also dramatically departed downward in sentencing a couple of ripe perverts — one who attempted to travel across state lines to molest a 9-year-old girl (when his thousands of child porn images weren’t enough); and another who’d distributed more than a hundred pornographic photos and videos of his own daughter.". . .

In conclusion: The media have also issued reams of "context," "fact checks" and "debunkings" ... all to prove that KBJ is a virtual Eliot Ness on crime! Don't believe your eyes! Forget everything you know about the Democrats! It's all lies and conspiracy theories!

Dem Nightmare: What If the War Ends Before November?

 Ann Coulter   

"Great news for Joe Biden. After months of abysmal public approval numbers, President Biden’s favorability among registered voters has soared by 2 points to 45%! And all he had to do was bring us to the brink of World War III.

'The media are thrilled with the possibility of nuclear war with Russia. Catastrophes are terrific for ratings, and flood-the-zone coverage of a war between two faraway countries that has almost zero effect on the lives of most Americans allows journalists to act like deep-think, geopolitical strategists (after having quickly looked up “Ukraine” on Wikipedia).

"They dragged out the COVID panic porn for two straight years. By now, the only people still interested in pandemic updates are hysterical liberal women in Manhattan claiming to have “long-haul COVID.”

"The national pastime has segued seamlessly from watching TV anchors cry on TV about the coronavirus to watching TV anchors cry on TV about the fate of Ukrainian children.

"Of course, when American kids are murdered expressly as a result of our own government’s policies, the journalism protocol is: No crying, no coverage.

"There will be no tears for the 5-year-old Florida girl killed in October when an illegal alien from Guatemala, Ernesto Lopez Morales, tanked up on six 32-ounce beers, then plowed into the little girl and her mother as he was driving to get more beer.

"Nor for Texas teenager Adrienne Sophia Exum, killed instantly one Sunday afternoon in 2020 when Heriberto Fuerte-Padilla, an illegal alien from Mexico, smashed into the car she was driving, then fled the scene. There’s even some news: The Biden administration announced that Fuerte-Padilla will not be deported.

"And there will be no weeping for the still-unidentified mother and daughter, aged 59 and 22, killed last December when a human smuggler (a “U.S. citizen,” aka “anchor baby”) carrying six illegals across the border into Texas, sped through a stop sign and T-boned the pair.". . .

Ron DeSantis Shows Disney No Mercy as War of Words Over Parents’ Rights Bill Escalates

Disney as many of us knew it in our days of being children

Watch: Ron DeSantis Shows Disney No Mercy as War of Words Over Parents’ Rights Bill Escalates – RedState

"We reported Monday on how Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the unfairly maligned Florida parental rights bill into law, which prompted the Usual Suspects on the left and in the media to once again howl with manufactured outrage that DeSantis had “banned” saying “gay” in public school classrooms (he hasn’t).

"One of the more noteworthy examples of a prominent DeSantis critic weighing in came from Disney, which promptly proclaimed that they would be on the frontlines of supporting efforts by dark money/billionaire-funded radical leftist groups to get the law, which among other things prevents instruction of gender identity and sexual orientation topics in grades K-3, repealed or struck down by the courts. For those who missed “woke” Disney’s response, read below:

"It was a helluva eye-opening statement for Disney to make considering their decades of making oodles of money on grounds that they are a “family-friendly” organization dedicated to providing wholesome entertainment and rides that young and old alike can enjoy.

"That’s a point that DeSantis has also made in the past, but in fresh comments made Tuesday, DeSantis took it a step further, going off not just on the media’s continued bias over the law, but also on Disney for “crossing a line” in trying to dictate what Florida law should be.

"In his remarks, DeSantis put Disney on notice, telling them that not only will he not be bullied, but also that the state is “governed by the interests of the people” and not woke corporations like Disney. Further, he noted that it was interesting that as the bill was floating through the Florida House, Republican leaders didn’t hear one word from Disney opposing it. Lastly, he reminded people of Disney’s close ties to China, pointing out that their reaction would be very different had the bill banned discussion of “the oppression of the Uyghurs in China”:. . .

Disney in the innocent days:

Disney today:

Collins to back Jackson for Supreme Court, calls confirmation process ‘broken’

What about Kinsinger, Romney and other RINOS?

 Portland Press Herald

Collins is so far the only Republican who plans to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

"Sen. Susan Collins will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, her office announced Wednesday morning, making her the first Republican to commit to doing so and all but assuring Jackson’s confirmation.

"Collins – who met a second time with Jackson after last week’s confirmation hearings — said she had reviewed the nominee’s record and believed “she possesses the experience, qualifications and integrity” to serve on the nation’s highest court.

“In my meetings with Judge Jackson, we discussed in depth several issues that were raised in her hearing,” Collins said in her statement. “Sometimes I agreed with her; sometimes I did not. And just as I have disagreed with some of her decisions to date, I have no doubt that, if Judge Jackson is confirmed, I will not agree with every vote that she casts as a Justice. That alone, however, is not disqualifying.”

"Collins was not available for an interview Wednesday, but she told the New York Times her unusual second meeting with Jackson Tuesday reassured her the nominee – who would be the first Black woman to serve on the court – would not be “bending the law to meet a personal preference.”. . .