Watch: Durbin destroys Hawley by allowing Ketanji Brown Jackson to respond to his debunked attack
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley‘s misleading and false allegations have been debunked by mainstream, left-leaning, and even right-wing media and news outlets and yet during his remarks on Monday he brought them up again. The Republican Senator from Missouri’s charges, which are tinged with a QAnon taint, basically are that Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was soft on those found guilty of child pornography.
At the opening of Tuesday’s Senate confirmation hearing Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin decimated Hawley’s attack with a litany of facts, but also by giving Judge Jackson the opportunity to speak to the allegations directly to the Senators and to the American people.
Joyce Vance, an MSNBC and NBC News legal analyst and a former U.S. Attorney observes that “Judge Jackson’s brilliance as a jurist is on full display as she responds to a question about whether she’s soft on crime when it comes to child pornography. Does not shy away from describing the crime as depiction of sex abuse but notes she must follow Congress’ sentencing law.”
3/ The importance of Judge Jackson\u2019s experience as a district judge is also on display here. She references victim impact statements from kids harmed when abused to produce pornography & explains how seriously she deals with defendants who produce/traffic as well as \u201clookers\u201d— Joyce Alene (@Joyce Alene) 1647955998
Watch Chairman Durbin confront the false allegations directly by using Senator Hawley’s own words, and Judge Jackson’s response:
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson responds to accusations about light sentences in child pornography cases.pic.twitter.com/2YUCIA15nD— CSPAN (@CSPAN) 1647956129
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