Senate Democrats are defending Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's nominee to become the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, from Republican attacks painting her as a liberal activist in confirmation hearings that enter a third day
Jackson was facing more questioning by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee after a marathon session on Tuesday during which Republicans pursued a series of hostile questions. Jackson rejected Republican accusations that she was improperly lenient as a judge in sentencing child pornography offenders and criticism of her legal representation earlier in her career of some detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Senator Chuck Grassley, the committee's top Republican, complained about documents that senators have sought relating to Jackson's sentencing record and her time on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, a federal agency that recommends sentencing guidelines.The first senator to question Jackson on Wednesday was Democrat Jon Ossoff, who said the Senate confirmation process at times can be intrusive, cruel and unfair. Jackson described her brother's service as a police officer and in the U.
Her confirmation would not change the court's ideological balance - it has a 6-3 conservative majority - but would let Biden freshen its liberal bloc with a 51-year-old jurist young enough to serve for decades. In responding to Republican claims that she has been soft on child pornography defendants, Jackson said on Tuesday: "As a mother and a judge who has had to deal with these cases, I was thinking that nothing could be further from the truth." In each such case, she said, "I did my duty to hold the defendants accountable."
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