Republican politicians in the US have attempted to undermine the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson by making false claims that she has a ‘long record’ of letting child porn offenders ‘off the hook.’
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was under fire by some Republicans on Monday during the first day of her confirmation hearing
In a tweet the senator wrote: ‘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,’ A separate factcheck done by CNN found that Hawley also took some of her comments out of context by suggesting they were opinions, rather than follow-up questions to subject-matter experts. Legal experts also agree that the judge’s sentencing record in federal child porn cases look to be mainstream.
‘Yet despite that shared family experience despite your record, we’ve heard claims that you’re quote soft on crime,’ said Durbin.White House spokesperson Andrew Bates later called his commentary ‘toxic and weakly-presented misinformation that relies on taking cherry-picked elements of her record out of context — and it buckles under the lightest scrutiny.’
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