A Republican Senator shut down Ketanji Brown Jackson with this brutal reality check

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first day of Supreme Court confirmation hearings turned into a trainwreck.

Even though Republicans telegraphed how they planned to attack her record, Jackson still imploded under questioning.

And a Republican Senator shut down Ketanji Brown Jackson with this brutal reality check.

Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley posted on social media about Jackson’s disturbing record of taking it easy on child pornographers and pedophiles.

Hawley listed seven cases where Jackson handed down much more lenient sentences for child pornographers than the federal guidelines or the prosecutors called for.

Senator Hawley noted one disturbing case where Jackson sentenced an 18- year-old in possession of hundreds of images or pictures of children as young as eight-years-old to only three months in jail when prosecutors recommended a sentence of two years.

Hawley questioned Jackson about her claim during the trial that an eight-year-old was “peers” with an 18-year-old.

Jackson tried to dodge and weave any accountability for going light on the child pornographer.

Hawley listed seven cases where Jackson handed down much more lenient sentences for child pornographers than the federal guidelines or the prosecutors called for.

Senator Hawley noted one disturbing case where Jackson sentenced an 18- year-old in possession of hundreds of images or pictures of children as young as eight-years-old to only three months in jail when prosecutors recommended a sentence of two years.

Hawley questioned Jackson about her claim during the trial that an eight-year-old was “peers” with an 18-year-old.

Jackson tried to dodge and weave any accountability for going light on the child pornographer.

“Senator, again, I don’t have the entire record,” Jackson declared. “I remember in that particular case, I considered it to be unusual, in part for the reasons that I described. I remember in that case the defense counsel was arguing for probation, in part because he argued that here we had a very young man who just graduated from high school. He presented all of his diplomas and certificates and the things that he had done and argued, consistent with what I was seeing in the record, that this particular defendant had gotten into this in a way that was, I thought, inconsistent with some of the other cases that I had seen.”

Hawley expressed his disbelief that Jackson could claim an 18-year-old with hours upon hours of child pornography was not a pedophile and that she felt sorry for him and his family.

Hawley blasted Jackson for talking about the child pornographer as if he was the victim in this case.

“To me, to take a guy who’s 18-years-old, who has what the government says is an extremely large collection of prepubescent pornography, eight-year-olds, 10-year-olds, 11-year-olds, we’re talking about, I mean, gobs of hours of time here that he has,” Hawley stated. “And you say to him, what you say well it was just a collection. I mean, he was just viewing it and it was, you know, essentially they were his peers. You say to him that he’s not a pedophile. I don’t know how you know that. I don’t know why that’s relevant to the guidelines. But maybe it is. You say he’s not a pedophile. You say that you’re very sorry for him. And what he suffered. And then you give him three months when, frankly, a liberal prosecutor is asking for two full years.”

Under normal circumstances, Jackson’s conduct in this case should be disqualifying.

But will any Democrat Senator cross their Party’s identity politics orthodoxies to oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson?

Poster Comment:

We do not need a sick and misguided individual on the Supreme Court.