{"id":1392966,"date":"2022-03-21T23:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T03:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392966"},"modified":"2022-03-21T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T03:30:06","slug":"ketanji-brown-jackson-college-thesis-argued-judges-have-personal-hidden-agendas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ketanji-brown-jackson-college-thesis-argued-judges-have-personal-hidden-agendas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketanji Brown Jackson College Thesis Argued Judges Have &#039;Personal Hidden Agendas&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fketanji-brown-jackson-college-thesis-argued-judges-have-personal-hidden-agendas%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=1392966&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<p class=\"subheading\">Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s 1992 Harvard University thesis argued that court officials, including judges, have \u201cpersonal hidden agendas,\u201d which may raise questions about her alleged tendency to be soft on criminals as a federal district court judge.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson\u2019s thesis, \u201c\u2018The Hand of Oppression\u201d: Plea Bargaining Processes and the Coercion of Criminal Defendants,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Jackson%20SJQ%20Attachments%20Final.pdf\">argued <\/a>that defendants sometimes are \u201cbeing coerced into relinquishing their constitutional rights as a prerequisite for sentencing consideration\u201d through the use of plea bargains.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jackson wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is a chance that the very institution which is designed to dispense justice and to protect individual rights could be the most guilty of creating injustices in its effort to make criminal adjudication economical and efficient. This thesis will examine guilty plea negotiations in modern criminal courts in the United States, and will argue that, as they currently operate, plea bargaining processes are both coercive and unacceptable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In her thesis, Jackson argues that it is necessary to examine the motivations, or \u201chidden agendas,\u201d that underlie the attempts to \u201cget the accused to waive their constitutional rights\u201d through plea bargains.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson wrote, \u201cWe must endeavor to identify the \u2018motivation of individual decision makers exercising delegating authority\u2019 both as support for the assertion that the process is pressure-laden (Chapter Two), and as a premise for the argument that the pressures themselves are unacceptably coercive (Chapters Five and Six).\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>She then claims that court actors, including judges, have \u201cpersonal motives\u201d for wanting to resolve cases by plea bargaining and for acting upon that desire.\u201d She claims that court officials, including judges, have \u201cpersonal hidden agendas:\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is possible that \u201c[t]he people who run the criminal justice process and the decisions that they make are more likely to serve their interest rather than the system\u2019s clients.\u201d Within a social institution of such tremendous power and influence, statutorial and ideological concepts have the potential to be manipulated by<strong> individuals for personal gain.<\/strong> And though \u201cpeople can justify their [actions] in the name of the collective good,\u201d they may actually be attempting to \u201cdisguis[e] a vested interest. \u201d Before we can effectively analyze plea bargaining, we must attempt to identify the <strong>personal hidden agendas<\/strong> of various court professionals. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jackson\u2019s argument that court officials have \u201cpersonal hidden agendas\u201d regarding plea bargains raises questions about her time as a federal district court judge, as many Republicans have accused her of being soft on criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/21\/watch-marsha-blackburn-says-ketanji-brown-jackson-must-explain-release-of-violent-criminals-during-covid\/\">said <\/a>Jackson was very lenient on crime during the coronavirus pandemic. She alleged that Jackson was partial towards criminals and terrorists:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At the start of the pandemic, you advocated, and again I wrote, for \u201ceach and every criminal defendant in the D.C. Department of Corrections custody should be released.\u201d That would have been 1500 criminals back on the street if you had had your way. And you used the COVID-19 pandemic as justification to release a fentanyl drug dealer, a bank robber addicted to heroin, and a convict who murdered a U.S. Marshal into our communities. But your efforts to protect convicts began before the pandemic. You used your time and talent, not to serve our nation\u2019s veterans or other vulnerable groups, but to provide free legal services to help terrorists get out of Gitmo and go back to the fight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/21\/watch-marsha-blackburn-says-ketanji-brown-jackson-must-explain-release-of-violent-criminals-during-covid\/\">noted <\/a>during the hearing that Jackson has documented past support of Critical Race Theory and Black Lives Matter. He said that would raise the question regarding left-wing prosecutors who are backed by left-wing donor George Soros.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said on Monday that Jackon has been \u201clenient\u201d on child sex predators and is \u201csoft on crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><i>Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMoran3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><i>@SeanMoran3<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s 1992 Harvard University thesis argued that court officials, including judges, have \u201cpersonal hidden agendas,\u201d which may raise questions about her alleged tendency to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"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-1392966","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\/1392966","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392966\/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=1392966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}