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After Collins and two other Republicans — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah — said theywill vote to confirmPresidentJoe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, JudgeKetanji Brown Jackson, Greene called those same lawmakers “pro-pedophile"on Twitter on Monday.
She appeared to be referencing broader GOP criticisms of Jackson’s record in handing down prison sentences.
“Frankly, this is what we’ve come to expect from her,” Collins said on Tuesday in response,according to an Insiderreporter who added that the she laughed when the question was asked. “So it doesn’t trouble me. It’s obviously ludicrous and typical.”
Asked for a comment Tuesday, a rep for Greene directed PEOPLE to a separateTwitter threadreiterating her stance.
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri was the first to deploy the line of questioning during the hearings. Others, including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, followed suit in some of thetenser moments of the proceedings.
Greene — with a history of headline-making behavior on social media — has spoken positively beforeabout QAnon, an evolvingcollection of conspiraciescentering on an outlandish claim that government, media and financial elites are cannibalistic, Satan-worshiping pedophiles.
Ketanji Brown Jackson.Jacquelyn Martin/AP/Shutterstock
She laterexpressed regretfor her support of QAnon and said she was “allowed to believe things that weren’t true.“Some critics see the line of questioning Jackson faced about child pornography and mentions of pedophiles in the government as ways to subtly engage with followers of QAnon.
Republicans, however, maintain they were thoroughly vetting a judge who is expected to serve on the Supreme Court for life.
source: people.com
