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Tom Cotton, Legal Scholar

Calvin Trillin

April 19, 2022

Tom Cotton walks to the Senate floor for the start of impeachment trial proceedings at the US Capitol on January 21, 2020.(Drew Angerer / Getty Images)

Tom Cotton, a man with two Harvard degrees, attacked Ketanji Brown Jackson for representing a defendant accused of terrorism. —news reports

Tom Cotton doesn’t seem to be aware That right to counsel’s needed to be fair. To teach him, Harvard wasn’t the solution. So maybe he should read the Constitution.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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