Biden’s SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Testifies Before the Senate

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Fox News’ Shannon Bream gives behind-the-scenes look at Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing

Fox News’ Shannon Bream gave a behind-the-scenes look at the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings, which are being held this week in the Hart Senate Office Building.

Grassley says Obama White House turned over thousands of ‘useless’ docs on Ketanji Brown Jackson

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said the Obama
White House turned over hundreds of thousands of documents concerning Ketanji Brown Jackson during her time as vice chair at the U.S. Sentencing Commission, but he said the majority of those documents were “obviously useless” and made no mention of her. 

“The Obama White House sent us roughly 68,000 pages of material,” Grassley said. “But more than 38,000 pages are repeated copies of an email thread keeping track of tweets about the [Merrick] Garland nomination. Those emails contain one tweet about Judge Jackson. More than 13,000 pages are just lists of previous nominations. 

“So that leaves only 16,000 pages that we received from the White House that aren’t obviously useless like all the other documents we received,” he continued. “But, for comparison, the White House has still withheld 48,000 pages under the Presidential Records Act and FOIA exemptions. That’s a lot of hiding.” 

Grassley added that the Obama White House records indicate that a co-founder of the left-wing advocacy group Demand Justice “played an important role on Judge Jackson’s nominations to the Sentencing Commission and the district court” and “even interviewed Judge Jackson about a nomination to the Sentencing Commission.” 

“It would be helpful to know what the Demand Justice co-founder learned during that process and why they so strongly support Judge Jackson,” he said.

Sen. Grassley says confirmation won’t be ‘a spectacle’ like Brett Kavanaugh hearings

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings won’t be a “spectacle” like the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“We will conduct a thorough, exhaustive examination of Judge Jackson’s record and views,” Grassley said. “We won’t try to turn this into a spectacle based upon alleged process fouls.

“Good news on that front: we’re off to a very good start. Unlike the start to the Kavanaugh hearings, we didn’t have repeated, choreographed interruptions of Chairman Durbin during his opening statements like Democrats interrupted me for more than an hour during my opening statement on the Kavanaugh hearings,” he added.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, said during his opening statement that Republicans’ claims that Jackson is soft on crime “fly in the face of pledges my colleagues made that they would approach your nomination with civility and respect.”

“I’m confident the American people will see through these attacks and any other last minute attempts to derail your confirmation,” Durbin said.

Biden tweets video supporting Ketanji Brown Jackson

President Biden said Monday that his Supreme Court nominee is a “brilliant legal mind.”

Supreme Court confirmation hearing a screen test for potential 2024 GOP contenders

With Democrats holding the Senate majority, the odds are extremely low that Republicans in the chamber can sidetrack President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee – Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson – from winning confirmation and making history as the first Black female on the nation’s highest court.

But that won’t stop some GOP senators with potential national ambitions who sit on the Senate Judiciary
Committee from taking advantage of the national spotlight afforded by Jackson’s confirmation hearing – which begins on Monday – as they take aim at the president’s nominee and potentially create some buzz-worthy moments that resonate among conservative voters.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas – who ran for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and who is considering another run – sits on the committee. So do Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas  Josh Hawley of Missouri, and Ben Sasse of Nebraska, who are all considered by pundits as potential White House hopefuls in the 2024 cycle. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee – who some view as a possible Republican running mate in the next presidential race – also sits on the committee.

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Senate confirmation hearings to begin for Biden’s Supreme Court pick Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will begin Monday in the Senate, marking President Biden’s first nomination to the high court. 

With Democrats in narrow control of the Senate and Jackson receiving three GOP votes in the past for her confirmation to a federal appellate court, Jackson heads into the hearings on a solid path toward confirmation. 

But Republicans don’t intend to let her off easy, raising concerns on everything from her past work as a public defender representing Guantanamo Bay detainees and whether she was too lenient on sex offenders as a district court judge.

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Josh Hawley’s criticism of Ketanji Brown Jackson

Hawley, in a recent Twitter thread, highlighted Jackson’s record as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission and argued that she has a history of “letting child porn offenders off the hook.” 

Hawley told Politico after meeting Jackson that he liked her “personally,” but had issues with her record on crime. 

CNN and The Washington Post have reported that Jackson’s record was taken out of context and that she has “mostly followed the common judicial sentencing practices” in her cases. A fact-check analysis from the Washington Post said that Hawley’s notes were “selective” and “lacking significant context” which Hawley has pushed back on as well. The Washington Post claims he “ignores a long debate within the judicial community about whether mandatory minimums were too high.” Hawley has pushed back on the fact check on Twitter. 

“Judge Jackson recommended eliminating the five-year minimum sentence for child porn, It’s right there in the report,” he said in response to the Washington Post’s point that the U.S. Sentencing Commission was a bipartisan commission, and that their recommendation was unanimous. 

Judge Jackson’s resume

Senate Democrats have fast-tracked Judge Jackson’s confirmation, despite a lengthy paper trail and the many professional hats she has worn:

– Supreme Court law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer, whose seat she would fill 

– Private attorney at four elite law firms

– Federal public defender (the last justice with such significant experience defending criminal defendants was Thurgood Marshall)

– Member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which during her tenure enacted bipartisan reforms to reduce disparate prison time for certain drug offenders

– Federal district court judge for eight years

– Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where three current justices once served

Three Republicans voted for her in June for that job: Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. 

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