“As long as they’re dangerous, I hope they all die in jail if they’re gonna go back and kill Americans,” patient with The Vapors and Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham huffs. “That’s a better outcome than lettin’ them go, and if it costs $500 million to keep ’em in jail, keep ’em in jail ’cause they’re gonna go back in the fight. Look at the friggin’ Afghan government. It’s made up of former detainees at Gitmo. This whole thing by the left about this war ain’t workin’!”
With its relevance to the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson in question, Lindsey’s dramatics–sprinkled with folksy dialect to hide the fascism and capped off by dramatic storming off the dais in a tizzy–ignores the requirements in the United States Constitution about a timely trial and cruel and unusual punishment. It also forgets that the US has no combat troops in Afghanistan, thanks to President Biden.
Lindsey also violated the Constitution asking his first question to Jackson: “What is your religion?” According to the Constitution, there can be no requirement relating to religion for any government position.