I think I know why the Republican Senators went at Ketanji Brown Jackson so hard

People are asking why they were so nasty.  The worst of them attacked her over CRT and child pornography and her defense of a Gitmo detainee (which was assigned to her, btw), but I think the real bur in their saddles was this:  She ruled against Don McGahn's bid to avoid testifying to the impeachment committee saying, "Presidents are not kings."  

I had forgotten she was the judge who did that.

The assholes attacking her at her confirmation hearings needed footage to show Trump's base for 2022 and 2024 elections just how much they also hate anyone who crosses Trump.

Jackson's 120-page ruling offers a brutal takedown of the White House's beloved “absolute immunity” defense, which the judge describes as “baseless,” “a fiction that has been fastidiously maintained over time through the force of sheer repetition,” and as an idea that “simply has no basis in the law.” “To make the point as plain as possible, it is clear to this Court for the reasons explained above that, with respect to senior-level presidential aides, absolute immunity from compelled congressional process simply does not exist,” Jackson writes, claiming that the Justice Department's insistence that it does exist “promotes a conception of separation-of-powers principles that gets these constitutional commands exactly backwards.” “In reality, it is a core tenet of this Nation’s founding that the powers of a monarch must be split between the branches of the government to prevent tyranny,” Jackson writes.

  Vanity Fair