Ketanji Brown Jackson said any suggestion that she was too lenient in sentencing convicted child porn offenders “could not be further from the truth.” Watch the Supreme Court nominee's rebuttal today to Republican attacks on her record.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson offered her first direct rebuttal Tuesday to Republican attacks on her record, declining to say whether she supports adding seats to the Supreme Court and defending her record on child pornography sentencing.
President Joe Biden’s high court pick tackled that issue during her first day of questioning from senators, which began with Durbin trying to defuse Republican attacks on Jackson on a variety of topics — including incendiary claims that she is soft on sentencing child pornography defendants.
Jackson, a mother of two, called such offenses “horrible” and tried to show that she understands the devastation children experience when adults produce or procure pornography involving minors. He spent much of his time questioning the appeals court judge about issues he’s championed for years, such as fraud suits that private individuals file on behalf of the government and getting Supreme Court arguments broadcast on television.
“I have nothing but the highest esteem and respect for my former boss, who I’ve spent the better part of the past couple decades calling ‘my justice,’ having clerked for him,” Jackson said. “But I do think the use of international law is very limited in our scheme and in our judging. There are very, very few cases, I think, in which international law plays any role and certainly not in interpreting the Constitution.
“I honestly don’t know that much about them,” said Sen. Cory Booker , a member of the Judiciary Committee. “If you pick the ACLU, or the [Center for American Progress] those are groups that we’ve worked with. They’re not to us what the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society are to [Republicans].”
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