Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton spoke in a Senate floor speech on Tuesday and said that Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson might have defended Nazis during the Nuremberg trials.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison had some harsh words to say in response to Sen. Cotton's comment.
"The last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg and prosecute the case against the Nazis," Sen. Cotton said. "This Judge Jackson might have gone there to defend them."
Sen. Cotton is referring to former Associate Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who served from 1941 to 1954, and was appointed by President Harry Truman in 1945 to prosecute Nazi war criminals during the Nuremberg trials.
Harrison responded to Sen. Cotton's remarks in a tweet on Tuesday night, and held back what he'd actually like to say about the Senator.
"I'm speaking to a group of preachers in the morning & I can’t say what I would like, but Bless the tiny, mold and maggot infested space where @TomCottonAR heart is supposed to be," Harrison tweeted.
Harrison then appeared on MSNBC and referred to Sen. Cotton again as "maggot-infested" for his criticism of Judge Jackson.
"In a Senate where there is Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton is the lowest of the low," Harrison said. "... It shows you who this little maggot-infested man is. He does not deserve to have that pen, he doesn't deserve to be in the United States Senate representing the good people of Arkansas."
"That is the Republican party we see today," Harrison added. "It is a party built on fraud, fear, and fascism, and they don't deserve to be in power. Not because Democrats should, but because they don't deserve to be in power of this great nation."
Harrison wasn't the only one to criticize Sen. Cotton for his remarks, as the Anti-Defamation League also spoke out on Twitter, calling it a "twisted way to attack Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson."
"Absolutely shameful conduct from @SenTomCotton," the ADL tweeted. "To use a Nazi analogy as some sort of twisted way to attack Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is reprehensible. We've said it a thousand times and we'll say it again: stop trivializing the Holocaust for political gain."
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