{"id":1395245,"date":"2022-03-23T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T04:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395245"},"modified":"2022-03-23T00:15:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T04:15:12","slug":"ketanji-brown-jackson-to-drug-kingpin-on-sentencing-i-am-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ketanji-brown-jackson-to-drug-kingpin-on-sentencing-i-am-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketanji Brown Jackson to Drug Kingpin on Sentencing: &#039;I Am Sorry&#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-to-drug-kingpin-on-sentencing-i-am-sorry%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=1395245&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) addressed President Joe Biden\u2019s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s comments to a \u201ccareer criminal\u201d drug \u201ckingpin\u201d in 2018, in which she stated that she \u201cshared\u00a0his frustration\u201d with regards to not being able to give him a lighter sentence, adding, \u201cAnd for this, I am sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeith Young was a career criminal who had previously been convicted of trafficking cocaine,\u201d Cotton explained during day two of Judge Jackson\u2019s Supreme Court confirmation hearing.<\/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>The senator elaborated:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In 2017, he was running a drug business in his house where his children lived, and was found with two one kilogram bricks of heroin, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, along with a gun, ammunition, thousands of dollars in cash, and equipment to cut and package heroin for retail sale. The drug lab also confirmed that there was fentanyl in both bricks of heroin. And in one of the two bricks there was actually more fentanyl than there was heroin.<\/p>\n<p>At the D.C. jail awaiting trial, Young bragged about his arrest, and about how he was a \u201ckingpin.\u201d Those were his words, not mine. \u201cKingpin.\u201d He was even recorded calling his wife and brother to give them instructions on collecting drug money from people for him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cotton went on to say that due to Young\u2019s criminal history, \u201che faced a mandatory minimum of 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20316800\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Day-2-Ketanji-Brown-Jackson.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, March 22, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou did not seem to like that, judge,\u201d Cotton told Jackson. \u201cIn fact, at his sentencing, you said that you \u2018shared his frustration\u2019 that you couldn\u2019t give him a lighter sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked to see this in the transcript,\u201d the senator continued. \u201cI was also shocked that you apologized to this drug kingpin for having to follow the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou literally said that you didn\u2019t think 20 years was fair,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cThis is the quote: \u2018And for this, I am sorry, mostly because I believe in second chances.\u2019 You apologized to this career criminal, a drug kingpin, in his own words. He was not some low-level, first time drug offender who made a bad choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton mentioned Jackson\u2019s comments at Young\u2019s 2018 sentencing on Tuesday, during her\u00a0confirmation hearing, where the judge also would not answer the senator\u2019s question regarding whether she believed the U.S. should strengthen \u201csentences for child pornographers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana\u00a0Mastrangelo on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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