The Washington Post‘s editorial board on Wednesday said Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have behaved “worse” during confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson than Democrats did for Brett Kavanaugh.

The editors said that while Kavanaugh was “credibly accused” of sexually assaulting a woman, “Republicans have smeared Judge Jackson based on obvious distortions of her record and the law” by bringing up her rulings involving child pornography and Guantanamo Bay detainees. Citing “clownish performances” by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), as well as the failure to confirm now-attorney general Merrick Garland in 2016, they said Republican senators “have done the most damage” in politicizing the Supreme Court confirmation process.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings were the most-watched televised event of the century for the Senate Judiciary Committee, with more than 20 million people tuning in. The hearings began with testimony from Christine Blasey Ford, a university professor and registered Democrat, who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her as a high school student in the 1980s.