Editor,

I have been listening to the Ketanji Brown Jackson Senate hearings and was very impressed with her dignity, experience and intelligence. On the other hand, the behavior of some of the Republican senators was deeply disturbing and disrespectful.

Lindsay Graham asked her about her religious beliefs, a question that is completely inappropriate, and kept interrupting her when she tried to answer his questions. Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz tried to depict her as soft on crime and heaven knows what else. They were not asking questions to get answers but to push preconceived images of her that anyone who had looked at her background would know were false. I suspect that these senators do not believe the nonsense that they were spouting, which means that they were malevolent rather than just ignorant.

Television programs have a rating to warn us when shows involve violence, drug use, etc. Senate hearings should have similar warnings so we know that we are likely to see adults acting badly, breaking the 9th commandment not to bear false witness repeatedly.

Steen Halling

Greenbank