{"id":1396956,"date":"2022-03-23T17:44:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396956"},"modified":"2022-03-23T17:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:44:46","slug":"a-very-simple-question-tom-cotton-has-testy-exchange-with-ketanji-brown-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-very-simple-question-tom-cotton-has-testy-exchange-with-ketanji-brown-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Very Simple Question\u2019: Tom Cotton Has Testy Exchange With Ketanji Brown Jackson"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fa-very-simple-question-tom-cotton-has-testy-exchange-with-ketanji-brown-jackson%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=1396956&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/4C7EF7D4-1645-4F89-94EA-62024271F6F7-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton and Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson got into a testy exchange during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton began by pointing out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/191134\/reported-murder-and-nonnegligent-manslaughter-cases-in-the-us-since-1990\/\">murder rates<\/a> jumped from about 16,000 in 2019 to more than 20,000 in 2020, an increase of 25%. Cotton also pointed out that a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/philadelphia-nears-500-murders-in-2021-mayor-wants-gun-control-to-combat-it\">major cities<\/a> around the country have seen record-high murder rates. At the same time, Cotton noted that the U.S. prison population has <a href=\"https:\/\/csgjusticecenter.org\/publications\/more-community-less-confinement\/national-report\/\">declined by approximately 14%<\/a>, and put the blame for this decline on fewer prosecutions and lax sentencing guidelines. He then asked Jackson to give her opinion on whether the country needed more police or fewer police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you just noted,\u201d Jackson began, \u201cI have law enforcement in my background, and I am very familiar with the problems that crime [causes] in the communities where we live\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, judge, I\u2019m sorry,\u201d Cotton interjected. \u201cWe have a few minutes here; you have a lifetime appointment if you\u2019re confirmed. I asked a simple either\/or question.\u201d Cotton then repeated his question: \u201cDoes the United States need more or fewer police?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator, the determination about whether there should be more or fewer police is a policy decision by another branch of government. It is not something that judges have control over, and I will stay in my lane in terms of the kinds of things that are properly in the Judicial branch,\u201d Jackson responded.<\/p>\n<p>After accusing Brown of evading the question, Cotton moved on to sentencing, pointing out that her record on sentencing had been the subject of much discussion throughout the day. \u201cIn general, is someone more or less likely to commit a crime if they know that they will be caught, convicted, and sentenced?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator, what is in my lane is the consideration of particular cases,\u201d Jackson began to reply.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton cut in again. \u201cJudge, you\u2019ve spoken a lot today about criminal sentencing, about the theory of sentencing, you\u2019ve written a lot about it in your record. It is a very simple question. Is someone more likely or less likely to commit a crime if they\u2019re more certain that they\u2019re going to be caught, convicted, and sentenced?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator, I am aware from my work on the sentencing commission and not as a judge, that there is research into recidivism rates, into rehabilitation, into the factors that go into a determination about whether someone is more or less likely to commit crime,\u201d Jackson responded. \u201cPart of what Congress has taken into account, when it determined that one of the purposes of punishment is deterrence, is the idea that if someone is convicted and punished, they will be deterred from committing other crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you\u2019ve mentioned that, and you\u2019ve written about that in your writings; there\u2019s four purposes of punishment, one of those is deterrence. Isn\u2019t it inherent in the concept of deterrence that people are less likely to commit crime if they\u2019re more likely to get caught, convicted, and sentenced? Why can\u2019t you just say [that] that\u2019s the case?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not that I\u2019m avoiding saying that\u2019s the case\u2014\u201d Jackson said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, judge, that\u2019s exactly what you\u2019re doing,\u201d Cotton fired back. \u201cI\u2019m asking a very simple question. In general, is someone more likely or less likely to commit a crime if they know they\u2019re going to be caught, convicted, and sentenced?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. 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