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Day 2 of Questioning Continues to Focus on Jackson’s Sentencing Decisions

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 23, 2022

The Senate Judiciary Committee held the third day of hearings and a second day of questioning today for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Questions from Republican senators continued to center on the judge’s track record on sentencing, especially in child pornography cases. Jackson pushed back on the questions saying, “no one case can stand in for my entire record.” When asked if she regretted some of the sentences, which fell below the sentencing guidelines, she said, “What I regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme Court, we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences.” Republicans on the committee also asked today to get copies of pre-sentencing reports related to the cases in question. Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said that move would be unprecedented and could negatively impact victims. The Hill has a wrap up of the day. Tomorrow, the committee will hear from a number of outside groups, including the ABA.

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