Harvard Classmates Spar as Cruz Jabs Jackson at Senate Hearing

Senator Ted Cruz said he always had a “friendly and cordial” relationship with his former law school classmate, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Then he attacked.

Cruz, who served on the Harvard Law Review with Jackson in the 1990s, accused her of embracing critical race theory and going easy on child-pornography offenders as a federal judge.

“Do you agree with this book that is being taught with kids that babies are racist?” Cruz asked, holding up a book he said was being taught to children at Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., where she serves on the board of trustees. ...