Each week our team reviews the week's political cartoons to bring you our selection of the best we've seen during the previous seven days.

Rarely do we expand beyond a point on this weekly feature, preferring to let the cartoonists' work speak for itself. But we hope you will permit us to comment on the past week's hearings, that were supposed to be about the exemplary qualifications of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is poised to become the first African American woman to join the United States Supreme Court. EVER!

In some ways Judge Jackson's joining the Supreme Court may prove more durable than the epic election of Barack Obama in 2008 as President, which was perhaps a necessary precursor. (Obama selected Joe Biden as his running mate, which was critical to Biden's election in 2020 as President. Biden pledged during his campaign to appoint a black woman to the Court if given the opportunity.]

The Republican ankle-biters on the Senate Judiciary Committee — especially Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Marcia Blackburn — offered a poignant reminder, as captured by Christopher Weyant of the Boston Globe, of the enduring grace of black women in the face of the outrageous behavior of the mob. Weyant's depiction of Judge Jackson entering the Capitol evoked both the grace of the Little Rock Nine and a far better illustration of an (attempted) "high tech lynching" than was provided by the duplicitous Clarence Thomas, who also gets a comeuppance in this week's offering.

Sadly, the Weyant cartoon also reminds us of the special obstacles that African Americans still must overcome in so many arenas.

Here are our top picks from the past week:

Have a great week! 

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