We watched segments of the confirmation hearings yesterday and were elated that Ketanji Brown Jackson gave such a passionate defense of her sentencing of child porn offenders. This was as a rebuttal to mud-slinging Republican attacks from traitor slime like Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley. Both of whom ought to have been hung by now for their role in sedition and supporting the insurrection of January 6th.
Joy Reid also pointed out the irony last night (‘The Reid Out’, MSNBC) of these two asswits querying Ketanji Brown not following “guidelines” for stiffer sentencing (set by congress, mind you) as opposed to using her discretion. Think about that! What if Merrick Garland had not used his own discretion and allowed these two rat vermin to be prosecuted for seditious conspiracy instead of being allowed to stay in the Senate chamber?
The two Repuke morons intimated that she has
been unduly lenient in such cases, their
low I.Q. preventing them from the deeper insight that as a judge she had
discretion to opt for lesser sentencing.
Also, as disgusting as these offenses were, they did not rise to the level
of attempted murder, like the January 6th insurrectionists perpetrated by beating in the heads of Capitol police with bats and flag poles.
Hawley himself - in many ways more odious even than Cruz - had spent several days advancing the theory that the Biden nominee, in her
eight years as a federal district court judge, handed down sentences that were
far more lenient than federal guidelines suggested or prosecutors requested.
Ina sequence of tense exchanges, Hawley bluntly admitted that he was engaging in grandstanding and mud hurling by questioning Jackson’s judgment over sex crimes cases. The traitor then quizzed the nominee over why she had told the offender that there was no reason to think he was a pedophile and had gone on to apologize to him and his family for the “collateral consequences of his conviction”. The imp had the nerve to ask:
“Judge,
is he the victim here, or are his victims the victims?”
Jackson replied that she had considered the case unusual, given that the defendant had only recently graduated from high school. He was not a hardened criminal yet, and in her weighing of the facts - and knowing the history of U.S. prisons - grasped there was little chance the kid would become a reconstructed, worthy citizen if given a full sentence. As she told the traitor:
“I sentenced this 18-year-old to three months in federal prison under circumstances presented in this case,”
Hawley’s attack on sex crimes sentencing was the most hostile Republican attack against Jackson,the first African American woman nominated to sit on the Supreme Court. His attack was also the most vile and brazenly racist given the "soft on crime" canard - from the time of Thurgood Marshall's hearings in 1967 - have been used to portray black judges as unfit. In the current iteration it's been done under the guise of harsh judicial questioning, but the tactic isn't fooling anyone with an IQ over room temperature digits. The strategy is a go-to one for Hawley given he hails from a state infested with Trumpie 'Big Lie' believers and FOX News addicts. Hence, he has sought to say outrageous BS to get on FOX as well as draw reactions from r/The_Donald and other Right sewers.. He probably understood his constituents wanted him to flay away at the judge and perhaps disrupt her calm demeanor and poise. In other words, reduce her to a screaming black virago, unfit to sit on the highest court. But this cockroach did not succeed, as she remained poised and unflappable amidst the mud hurling, by him as well as Cruz and Tom "Covid came from a Chinese lab" Cotton.
Jackson
was also forced to defend herself against accusations that she was soft in her
legal approach towards Guantánamo detainees. Most held for years since 9/11 without actually being charged with a specific crime. She spent two
years as a federal public defender and in that role represented some of the
detainees in their bid for review of their cases.
Jackson rightly said that American justice required all defendants to be represented
and treated fairly. “That’s what makes our system the best in the world, that’s
what makes us exemplars,.” Of course, this is not in the Republican autocratic interests. They are more invested in getting their top Traitor Trump reinstated as president - so they can erect an autocratic state on this side of the Atlantic.
Lindsey Graham, the whiny SC Repuke who once inveighed against Trump after the January 6th violence - then turned tail and ran back to kiss his ring - tried to impugn Jackson by association. Obviously feeling he needed to get revenge for the way Democrats grilled Brett Kavanaugh - recall his hysterical screeching e.g.
He pointed to progressive groups who had backed her nomination, attempting to paint her as a "radical leftist" - to use the parlance of Bimbo Lauren Boebert. He especially referred to groups that wanted to "pack the court", i.e. dilute conservative dominance of the supreme court by balancing the numbers. Well, even the WSJ editors are terrified of that, but more via natural processes. Yesterday their lead editorial hyped the extreme import of these hearings given that Clarence Thomas now is ill with some kind of infection. God forbid the least competent Supreme Court justice of all gets replaced by another "radical lib." And with Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation, wow, that could make it a 5-4 court - theoretically!
Today, at least, the pressure cooker atmosphere and mud slinging of the racist repukes should ease up. Such histrionics are usually reserved for the second day of hearings – which was yesterday - traditionally the toughest day which Sen. Dick Durbin has described as “trial by ordeal”. Well, Ketanji Brown Jackson passed that ordeal with flying colors even as she exposed the GOP as the racist rats they are. As most pundits note, and I agree, these asswipes were basically all playing for the racist base in their respective states. They felt they had to do it, but as the WSJ editorial warned, they needed to not go overboard lest they motivate Democratic voters to come out en masse in the midterms.
Well, pardon me, that ought to be the primary focus of all sane voters anyway. If there was any lingering doubt these Reep losers and traitors are unfit to govern, it was bloody well openly revealed yesterday in the Senate Judiciary hearing.
See Also:
Excerpt:
"Teenage dating habits."
That is the exciting new euphemism that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., adopted Monday to describe an alleged sexual assault. He rolled this one out during the first day of Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Jackson was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, but as far as Republicans were concerned, the hearing was mainly about how white men are the truly oppressed in America — especially white men who have been credibly accused of sexual violence, such as Republican Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
It's been three and a half years since Kavanaugh was first held publicly to anything resembling account for allegations of attempted rape, and yet Republicans are still angry about it. Monday's hearing was supposed to be about Jackson but was taken up by Republicans whining about Kavanaugh, and about how men are done dirty when women come forward with stories of rape and assault. Sen. Lindsey Graham told Jackson "none of us are going to do that to you," referring to the 2018 hearings in which Christine Blasey Ford stepped forward to accuse of Kavanaugh trying to rape her. As the New York Times drily noted, one reason might be that "Judge Jackson has never been accused of committing sexual assault."
And:
by David Badash | March 23, 2022 - 7:47am | permalink
— from The New Civil Rights Movement
Excerpt:
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.
And:
by Amanda Marcotte | March 22, 2022 - 7:22am | permalink
And:
In the Jackson hearings, Republicans prefer to whine about history
And:
GOP drops any subtlety in centering the Jackson nomination fight on race - The Washington Post
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