Posted on 03/22/2022 12:49:12 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat opened the hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, brushing away attacks from Republicans who claimed she had been too lenient on “child porn offenders.”
Committee chair Dick Durbin referred to the allegation in his opening remarks, rebutting it as he cited an unlikely source: Andrew McCarthy, a conservative former prosecutor and National Review columnist.
In a series of tweets last week, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said he had discovered an “alarming pattern when it comes to Judge Jackson’s treatment of sex offenders, especially those preying on children.”
"In every single child porn case for which we can find records, Judge Jackson deviated from the federal sentencing guidelines in favor of child porn offenders," Hawley tweeted.
Hawley listed seven cases involving Jackson that he was concerned about.
Durbin followed Hawley by saying Jackson “deserves to be heard on that type of a charge.” In the final opening statement of the day, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., included the allegation of going light on child porn offenders in a list of other attacks on the nominee.
Multiple analyses of Jackson’s record have concluded that Hawley’s criticism of her was misleading. And former federal prosecutor McCarthy called the Missouri senator’s allegation against Jackson “meritless to the point of demagoguery.”
While opposing Jackson’s nomination, McCarthy wrote that “the implication that [Jackson] has a soft spot for ‘sex offenders’ who ‘prey on children’ because she argued against a severe mandatory-minimum prison sentence for the receipt and distribution of pornographic images is a smear.”
Liberal pundits have argued Hawley’s line of attack echoes the QAnon conspiracy theory, which falsely accuses Democrats of running child sex-trafficking rings.
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“I'm likely to be followed by one or more colleagues who have raised allegations about your record that are simply unfounded in fact and indeed irresponsible,” Blumenthal said, speaking immediately before Hawley. “They're unproven and unprovable. They're simply false.”
Unfounded! But he believed Doctor Ford.
Unfounded! But he believed Doctor Ford.
Proof ? Evidence ? Cites ? Every time the gaslighting propaganda arm of the Derp State cries "false", it's 100% true.
Hawley is just doing his job and he is good at it. All Limpdick Durbin can accomplish is to shut down children’s lemonade stands. Limpdick is good at that but nothing else.
God bless you Sen. Hawley! Prayers up for you and others who speak the truth in this evil era.
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Just like the laptop and the beat goes on.
I hope a few women dress up like “Handmaidens” and strutt around the gallery behaving as foolishly as they did in previous confirmation hearings. It would be a nice distraction for Democrats when the shoe is on the other foot.
The primary purpose of Ketanji Brown Jackson is to make Kamala Harris look articulate and competent by comparison.
“... she had been too lenient on “child porn offenders.”??
How is it a ‘smear’ if the record of her decisions and opinions are “documented”?
The woman is Black. Therefore, politically, she is bad, a national travesty. As a Black political entity, she is not fit to serve
Clarence Thomas? Really? He is of the Afro Heritage minority minority and not a racist Affirmative Action political creation
Ketanji is an open, avowed, and unrepentant racist. That alone should keep her off the bench.
“How is it a ‘smear’ if the record of her decisions and opinions are “documented”?”
Of course it’s a smear - any attack on a Democrat is a smear!
Republicans are pouncing again. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
“... she had been too lenient on “child porn offenders.”
But she’s a woman of color. Ergo she is imminently qualified to sit on the highest court in the land.
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