The Senate Judiciary Committee works into the night the second day of confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Follow Newsweek for the latest.
Democratic Senator Corey Booker of New Jersey praised Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, lauding the"trust" that he places in her.
He later noted Jackson's family members had worked in law enforcement before reciting a list of Jackson's endorsements from victim advocacy groups and law enforcement organizations. "Senator, that's a policy question about the egregious crime of rape," Jackson responded."And Congress has said that the court is supposed to take into account a number of factors when it sentences... I can't answer in the abstract."After the Arkansas Republican complained that Jackson was not adequately answering"not tough" questions, the judge responded that they were not questions she was qualified to answer.
"Senator Hirono just made reference to the recommendations of the probation office in five of these cases," Cruz said."To the best of my knowledge, those probation recommendations are not in the record. I haven't seen them, my staff hasn't seen them." Cruz continued to press the issue, asking whether Durbin and other Democrats had been keeping"differential access to this information." The chairman responded that he was not sure about the definition of the phrase before saying that he would"look it up."Jackson Calls Child Porn Cases 'Damaging'
"These are some of the most difficult cases that a judge has to deal with because we're talking about pictures of sex abuse of children," she continued."We're talking about graphic descriptions that judges have to read and consider when they decide how to sentence in these cases."
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