Republicans Considering Big Change On Senate Judiciary, Democrats FuriousWhen it comes to the identity politics on the left, it’s amazing how quickly they’ll turn a blind eye at powerful minority or female conservatives.
This will likely be the case if the Senate Judiciary Committee welcomes its first female Republicans, which, Politico reports, McConnell has just announced may soon happen.
Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, two staunch, pro-life conservatives, may soon be the first Republican females on the committee and would certainly silence criticism that the Republicans had lacked in this department.
Above: Sen. Marsha Blackburn |
Although “feminists” are likely to be silent about the matter entirely.
During the last Congress, the Republican’s lack of female Senators on the Committee came up more than once.
“Everyone knows Republicans need women on Judiciary,” Marilyn Musgrave, Susan B. Anthony List vice president, said. “It will take away the critics asking, ‘Where are the women?’”
During the eventful Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, the Republicans ended up hiring a female prosecutor to question Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused the then-Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault decades ago.
“Having a woman Republican senator would have really helped with the Kavanaugh hearing and some of the pushback we saw,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America. “It was really unfortunate that the hearing fell right into the narrative the other side was trying to paint, that pro-lifers are all men and are anti-woman, which is just not true.”
Both Blackburn and Ernst are guaranteed to rub pro-abortion advocates the wrong way, as both have a strong pro-life stance and a history of going after abortion giant Planned Parenthood’s funding.
All told, the feminist left is already irritated at the idea.
“Just because a woman serves in a particular role doesn’t mean that person exemplifies values that are going to be best for women and families in this country,” Adrienne Kimmell, vice president of communications and strategic research for the abortion rights group NARAL, told Politico.
Twitter users also expressed their pessimism:
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