As we’ve previously reported, Senate Democrats who went scorched earth on Republican Supreme Court nominees like Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh are getting their just deserts this week as Republicans are not holding back during the confirmation hearings for President Biden’s Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson.

For example, GOP Senators have taken full advantage of the opportunity to remind their Democratic colleagues of what raging hypocrites they are when it comes to Republican nominations of black, Hispanic, and female judicial nominees.

It was also pointed out how when it comes to questioning the actual records of their own nominees Democrats had a rather convenient change of heart in comparison to their unquestionably abhorrent treatment of Barrett and Kavanaugh (not to mention then-Sen. Joe Biden’s racially-charged smears against eventual SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas).

As expected, the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are not taking the attacks on them and Jackson well at all. But as the hearings got underway Monday, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) added fuel to the fire by giving a bizarre and wildly contradictory statement on Judge Jackson that accidentally confirmed what Republicans have said all along about Biden’s nomination of her:

The Supreme Court has existed for over 233 years, and of the 115 justices in the history of the Court, only five of them have been women, only two have been Black, and not a single one has been a Black woman.

[…]

But instead of celebrating the long-overdue diversity Judge Jackson would bring to the court some of my Republican colleagues and public figures have attempted to undermine your qualifications through their pejorative use of the term “affirmative action.” They have implied you were solely nominated due to your race, and for no other factor. Apparently, some have even claimed that we need to see your LSAT scores to determine whether you are a top legal mind.

This so incredibly offensive and condescending. Let me be clear when I say, this isn’t about filling some quota. This is about time. It’s about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished Black woman on the Supreme Court. It’s about time our highest court better reflects the country it serves.

Watch below as Hirono says Jackson was “not about filling a quota” and then almost immediately afterward says “it is about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished black woman” on the Supreme Court:

"They have implied you were solely nominated due to your race…Your nomination is not about filling a quota… It is about time that we have a highly qualified, highly accomplished Black woman serving on the Supreme Court," Sen. Hirono says of Judge Jackson in opening remarks. pic.twitter.com/5CsFDDheXY

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 21, 2022

When we’re written before about how Hirono is not the sharpest tool in the shed, we weren’t kidding. Unfortunately, Hawaii is not known for sending its best and brightest to Washington, D.C (with Tulsi Gabbard being a notable exception).

In any event, it says everything about Democrats and none of it good that they’ve been reduced to acknowledging Jackson was indeed a quota pick while at the same time in so many words also acknowledging the GOP’s point about how picking nominees on such a basis rather than actual qualifications is rather insulting and offensive to the very group of people (minorities) you proclaim you’re trying to help rise to the top (case in point: VP Harris).

Then again, pretzel logic is one of the few things Democrats seem to excel at, and it certainly has been on full (and embarrassing) display over the last couple of days, with more sure to come – with Hirono no doubt continuing to play a key role in the clown show, as always.

Stay tuned.

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