Do these conservative attacks against the Supreme Court nominee hold any weight?
The confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the next Supreme Court Justice begin on Monday. On this week’s Amicus, which is exclusive to Slate Plus members, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discuss the issues that will likely come up during Jackson’s upcoming hearing.Let’s talk about what does seem to be a coherent opposition to Judge Jackson, and we can pull some of these pieces from her prior confirmation hearings.
And if Republicans claim that that is somehow disqualifying for a judgeship or for the Supreme Court, they are notattacking Ketanji Brown Jackson—they are attacking the Constitution and the Sixth Amendment that they claim to love so much.
That has never been a benchmark for a judicial nominee of qualifications. That is just a really pathetic effort to revive this dark money attack line that conservatives have tried to devise, because for years, there were only really dark money conservative groups lobbying for judges. Now, there are a few dark money liberal groups and conservatives are very offended that the playbook has been borrowed by the left.
Here we have, I think, nine cases that Josh Hawley has plucked out. And in each of these nine cases, it is absolutely true that Jackson handed down what the guidelines would consider to be relatively light sentences, at the lower end or below what the guidelines suggests for someone who has been convicted of child pornography—not producing child pornography, but possessing child pornography. Not creating it, or sharing it in really broad networks, but just having it.
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