In a letter, more than 50 civil society groups assert Republican lawmakers' aspersions on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson 'grossly mischaracterize her work and threaten the ideals of our democracy.'
the nominee's assigned public defense advocacy on behalf of Guantánamo Bay detainees, the 56 groups said that"attacks made on Judge Jackson's service as a federal public defender and the clients she vigorously represented are spurious and undermine one of the central tenets of our democracy."
Thus, the work of public defenders and criminal defense lawyers is critical. Those who enter public service as public defenders and criminal defense lawyers—like Judge Jackson and so many others—should be commended, not maligned. "As those who have closely studied this issue explain, Judge Jackson's sentences were well within the range of her peers," the groups wrote."The 2021 U.S. Sentencing Commission report noted that less than 30% of people convicted of nonproduction child sexual abuse material offenses received a sentence within the guideline range. Such discrepancies were also described to Congress in a 2012 report by the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
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