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The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees

In an escalation of partisan warfare, a little-known dark-money group is trying to thwart the Presidentโ€™s entire slate.

During the autos-da-fรฉ that now pass for Supreme Court confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate, itโ€™s common for supporters of a nominee to dismiss attacks from the opposing party as mere partisanship. But, during theย recent hearingsย for Ketanji Brown Jackson, Andrew C. McCarthyโ€”a Republican former federal prosecutor and a prominent legal commentator atย National Reviewโ€”took the unusual step of denouncing an attack from his own side. When Republican senators, including Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn, beganย accusing Jacksonย of having been a dangerously lenient judge toward sex offenders, McCarthy wrote a column calling the charge โ€œmeritless to the point of demagoguery.โ€ He didnโ€™t like Jacksonโ€™s judicial philosophy, but โ€œthe implication that she has a soft spot for โ€˜sex offendersโ€™ who โ€˜prey on childrenโ€™ย .ย .ย . is a smear.โ€

In the end, the attacks failed to diminish public support for Jackson, and her poised responses to questioning helped secure her nomination, by a vote of 53โ€“47. But the fierce campaign against her was concerning, in part because it was spearheaded by a new conservative dark-money group that was created in 2020: the American Accountability Foundation. An explicit purpose of the A.A.F.โ€”a politically active, tax-exempt nonprofit charity that doesnโ€™t disclose its backersโ€”is to prevent the approval of all Biden Administration nominees.

While the hearings were taking place, the A.A.F. publicly took credit for uncovering a note in theย Harvard Law Reviewย in which, they claimed, Jackson had โ€œarguedย that Americaโ€™s judicial system is too hard on sexual offenders.โ€ The group also tweeted that she had a โ€œsoft-on-sex-offenderโ€ record during her eight years as a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. As theย Washingtonย Postย and other outlets stated, Jacksonโ€™s sentencing history on such cases was well within the judicial mainstream, and in line with a half-dozen judges appointed by the Trump Administration. When Jackson defended herself on this point during the hearings, the A.A.F. said, on Twitter, that she was โ€œlying.โ€ The groupโ€™s allegationโ€”reminiscent of the QAnon conspiracy, which claims that liberal รฉlites are abusing and trafficking childrenโ€”rippled through conservative circles. Tucker Carlson repeated the accusation on his Fox News program while a chyron declared โ€œjackson lenient in child sex cases.โ€ย Marjorie Taylor Greene, the extremist representative from Georgia, called Jackson โ€œpro-pedophile.โ€

Byย Jane Mayer

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