{"id":1391813,"date":"2022-03-21T12:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1391813"},"modified":"2022-03-21T12:15:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:15:48","slug":"bidens-scotus-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-scotus-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Testifies Before the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-scotus-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1391813&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div id=\"post-9\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6301370031001#sp=show-clips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to watch on Fox News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-8\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Mon Mar 21 2022 12:12:37 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Fox News&#8217; Shannon Bream gives behind-the-scenes look at Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Fox News&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-7\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Mon Mar 21 2022 11:51:50 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Grassley says Obama White House turned over thousands of \u2018useless\u2019 docs on Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/barack-obama\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_7_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama<\/a><br \/>\n 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 \u201cobviously useless\u201d and made no mention of her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Obama White House sent us roughly 68,000 pages of material,\u201d Grassley said. \u201cBut 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that leaves only 16,000 pages that we received from the White House that aren\u2019t obviously useless like all the other documents we received,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut, for comparison, the White House has still withheld 48,000 pages under the Presidential Records Act and FOIA exemptions. That\u2019s a lot of hiding.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grassley added that the Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_7_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> records indicate that a co-founder of the left-wing advocacy group Demand Justice \u201cplayed an important role on Judge Jackson\u2019s nominations to the Sentencing Commission and the district court\u201d and \u201ceven interviewed Judge Jackson about a nomination to the Sentencing Commission.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be helpful to know what the Demand Justice co-founder learned during that process and why they so strongly support Judge Jackson,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-6\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Mon Mar 21 2022 11:27:54 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Sen. Grassley says confirmation won\u2019t be \u2018a spectacle&#8217; like Brett Kavanaugh hearings<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings won&#8217;t be a &#8220;spectacle&#8221; like the confirmation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/judiciary\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_6_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> Justice Brett Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe will conduct a thorough, exhaustive examination of Judge Jackson&#8217;s record and views,&#8221; Grassley said. &#8220;We won&#8217;t try to turn this into a spectacle based upon alleged process fouls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good news on that front: we&#8217;re off to a very good start. Unlike the start to the Kavanaugh hearings, we didn&#8217;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,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/judiciary\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_6_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Judiciary<\/a><br \/>\n Committee, said during his opening statement that Republicans\u2019 claims that Jackson is soft on crime \u201cfly in the face of pledges my colleagues made that they would approach your nomination with civility and respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m confident the American people will see through these attacks and any other last minute attempts to derail your confirmation,&#8221; Durbin said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-5\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Mon Mar 21 2022 10:30:56 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Biden tweets video supporting Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_5_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">President Biden<\/a> said Monday that his Supreme Court nominee is a &#8220;brilliant legal mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-4\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Mon Mar 21 2022 10:19:13 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Supreme Court confirmation hearing a screen test for potential 2024 GOP contenders<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>\nWith Democrats holding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_4_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate majority<\/a>, the odds are extremely low that Republicans in the chamber can sidetrack President Biden\u2019s Supreme Court nominee \u2013 Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson &#8211; from winning confirmation and making history as the first Black female on the nation\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n<p>But that won\u2019t stop some GOP senators with potential national ambitions who sit on the Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/judiciary\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_4_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Judiciary<\/a><br \/>\n Committee from taking advantage of the national spotlight afforded by Jackson\u2019s confirmation hearing \u2013 which begins on Monday \u2013 as they take aim at the president\u2019s nominee and potentially create some buzz-worthy moments that resonate among conservative voters.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas \u2013 who ran for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and who is considering another run \u2013 sits on the committee. So do Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas\u00a0 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 \u2013 who some view as a possible Republican running mate in the next presidential race \u2013 also sits on the committee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court-confirmation-hearing-a-screen-test-for-potential-2024-gop-contenders-on-judiciary-committee\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_4_article3\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to read more on Fox News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-3\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Mon Mar 21 2022 09:03:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Senate confirmation hearings to begin for Biden&#8217;s Supreme Court pick Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/judiciary\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_3_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will begin Monday in the Senate, marking President Biden&#8217;s first nomination to the high court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With Democrats in narrow control of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_3_article2\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a> 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Republicans don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/senate-confirmation-hearings-begin-bidens-supreme-court-pick-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_3_article3\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to read more on Fox News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-2\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Mon Mar 21 2022 00:18:35 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Josh Hawley&#8217;s criticism of Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Hawley, in a recent Twitter thread, highlighted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/sen-hawley-warns-long-record-biden-scotus-pick-letting-child-porn-offenders-off-hook\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_2_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Jackson&#8217;s record<\/a>\u00a0as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission and argued that she has a history of &#8220;letting child porn offenders off the hook.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hawley told Politico after meeting Jackson that he liked her &#8220;personally,&#8221; but had issues with her record on crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nCNN and The Washington Post have reported that Jackson&#8217;s record was taken out of context and that she has &#8220;mostly followed the common judicial sentencing practices&#8221; in her cases.\u00a0A fact-check analysis from the Washington Post said that Hawley&#8217;s notes were &#8220;selective&#8221; and &#8220;lacking significant context&#8221; which Hawley has pushed back on as well. The Washington Post claims he &#8220;ignores a long debate within the judicial community about whether mandatory minimums were too high.&#8221; Hawley has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1504850055626428417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed back<\/a>\u00a0on the fact check on Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Judge Jackson recommended eliminating the five-year minimum sentence for child porn, It&#8217;s right there in the report,&#8221; he said in response to the Washington Post&#8217;s point that the U.S. Sentencing Commission was a bipartisan commission, and that their recommendation was unanimous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-1\">\n<p><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Mon Mar 21 2022 00:15:27 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\"><\/time><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\">Judge Jackson&#8217;s resume<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Senate\u00a0Democrats\u00a0have fast-tracked Judge Jackson&#8217;s confirmation, despite a lengthy paper trail and the many professional hats she has worn:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Supreme Court law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer, whose seat she would fill\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Private attorney at four elite law firms<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Federal public defender (the last justice with such significant experience defending criminal defendants was Thurgood Marshall)<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which during her tenure enacted bipartisan reforms to reduce disparate prison time for certain drug offenders<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Federal district court judge for eight years<\/p>\n<p>\n\u2013 Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where three current justices once served<\/p>\n<p>Three Republicans voted for her in June for that job: Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and\u00a0Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/senate-hearings-supreme-court-nominee-jackson-race-politics\" target=\"_blank\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"lb_biden&#039;s-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson-testifies-before-the-senate:-live-updates_postclickthru_1_article1\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to watch on Fox News.Fox News&#8217; Shannon Bream gives behind-the-scenes look at Ketanji Brown Jackson hearingFox News&#8217; Shannon Bream gave a behind-the-scenes look at the Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}