Judge Jackson reacts to GOP focus on her sentencing record: 'What I regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme Court, we have spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who supported Jackson's confirmation to the D.C. Circuit but has been combative at times during questioning, said to"stay tuned" about whether he would support her this time around.
Jackson told Hawley,"I am fully aware of the seriousness of this offense and also my obligation to take into account all of the various aspects of the crime, as Congress has required me to do. And I made a determination seriously in each case."Drew Angerer/Getty Images Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., didn't press Jackson on child porn sentencing. Instead he asked Jackson if she thought law schools were becoming too homogenous -- too"liberal or illiberal" with conservatives voices getting"canceled" -- and asked if it would be better to have a diverse set of voices from"across the political spectrum,” to which Jackson agreed.Sen.
"When you're the first it means no one has ever done it before like you -- and there may be hundreds, thousands of people who might have wanted that opportunity and thought, 'I can't do that because there's no one there like me,'" Jackson continued.
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