GOP Senator Questions ‘Lenient’ Child-Porn Sentences by High Court Pick Jackson
- Democrats, legal experts push back on Hawley’s criticism
- Missouri senator cites prison terms Jackson meted out as judge
Senator Josh Hawley speaks to members of the media before a confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in Washington, D.C., on March 21.
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Republican Senator Josh Hawley said he intends to question Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson about the sentences she meted out in child pornography cases, a line of attack on the Supreme Court nominee that many legal experts have labeled misleading.
“In each of these seven, Judge Jackson handed down a lenient sentence that was below what the federal guidelines recommended and below what prosecutors requested,” Hawley, of Missouri, said in his opening statement for Jackson’s confirmation hearing Monday. “I think there’s a lot to talk about there.”