Tillis got mad after misreading a legal decision, and Graham's still leaning into the child porn attack. Here's how day 2 of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Q&A is going:
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks at her Supreme Court nomination confirmation hearing at the Capitol on Wednesday. | Francis Chung/E&E News/POLITICOSupreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday faces a second day of questioning from Senate Judiciary Committee members considering her confirmation to the nation’s highest court.
“Do you think it’s a bigger deterrent to take somebody who’s on a computer, looking at sexual images of children in the most disgusting way, is to supervise their computer habits versus putting them in jail?” Graham asked.“No, that’s exactly what you said,” Graham interrupted. The best way to deter these criminals is “to put their ass in jail, not supervise their computer usage,” he said.
Tillis , the last GOP lawmaker to question Jackson during the first round of her Senate Judiciary Hearing, asked her Wednesday about, in which she declined to grant an inmate early release amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Tillis’s questioning suggested that he believed Jackson supported release for the inmate and the senator interrupted the Supreme Court nominee multiple times as she attempted to explain.
“Senator, if you read two more sentences down, that is precisely what I focused on,” Jackson responded.
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