NPR recently looked into the correlation between Republican Senator Hawley’s conspiracy-like tweets that accuse Ketanji Brown Jackson of being a “protector” of child predators. KBJ, the newest nominee of the Supreme Court by President Biden, has a background in being a public defender. Only a fraction of her cases, however, were child predator cases. A couple of weeks after her nomination, Senator Josh Hawley took to Twitter to share baseless accusations of her being sympathetic to child pornography defendants. NPR then provided evidence that after this accusation on Twitter, the amount of people posting about her on alternative social media sites flared up immensely. This is such a concern because when Hawley questioned Jackson during one of her confirmation hearings, he relentlessly bombarded her with accusations about being a supporter of these predators, and “fact-checkers and some conservative legal experts have labeled these claims as misleading and note that his comments are tied to conspiracy theories, including the far-right QAnon.” This information is concerning and dangerous, and even more so when brought to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the country. Baseless accusations like these not only discredit Jackson and her history as a public defender, but confirm the ideas of conspiracy theorists who see a United States Senator spreading this misinformation.
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