{"id":1399324,"date":"2022-03-24T19:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399324"},"modified":"2022-03-24T19:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:59:43","slug":"top-u-s-senator-comes-out-against-biden-scotus-nominee-cannot-and-will-not-support-judge-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-u-s-senator-comes-out-against-biden-scotus-nominee-cannot-and-will-not-support-judge-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Top U.S. Senator Comes Out Against Biden SCOTUS Nominee: \u2018Cannot and Will Not Support Judge Jackson\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Ftop-u-s-senator-comes-out-against-biden-scotus-nominee-cannot-and-will-not-support-judge-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=1399324&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\/JJ-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced on Thursday that he will not support President Joe Biden\u2019s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, after coming into the process with \u201can open mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter studying the nominee\u2019s record and watching her performance this week, I cannot and will not support Judge Jackson for a lifetime appointment to our highest Court,\u201d McConnell said in a statement. \u201cFirst, Judge Jackson refuses to reject the fringe position that Democrats should try to pack the Supreme Court. Justices Ginsburg and Breyer had no problem denouncing this unpopular view and defending their institution. I assumed this would be an easy softball for Judge Jackson. But it wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nominee suggested there are two legitimate sides to the issue,\u201d he continued. \u201cShe testified that she has a view on the matter but would not share it. She inaccurately compared her non-answer to a different, narrower question that a prior nominee was asked. But Judge Jackson seemingly tipped her hand. She said she would be, \u2018thrilled to be one of however many.\u2019 The opposite of the Ginsburg and Breyer sentiment. The most radical pro-court-packing fringe groups badly wanted this nominee for this vacancy. Judge Jackson was the court-packers\u2019 pick. And she testified like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell specifically took issue with Jackson\u2019s stances on crime and illegal immigration in his statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one area where Judge Jackson\u2019s trial court records provide a wealth of information. And it is troubling,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cThe Judge regularly gave certain terrible kinds of criminals light sentences that were beneath the sentencing guidelines and beneath the prosecutors\u2019 requests. The Judge herself, this week, used the phrase \u2018policy disagreement\u2019 to describe this subject. The issue isn\u2019t just the sentences. It\u2019s also the Judge\u2019s rhetoric in trial transcript and the creative ways she bent the law. In one instance, Judge Jackson used COVID as a pretext to essentially rewrite a criminal justice reform law from the bench and make it retroactive, which Congress had declined to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe did so to cut the sentence of a fentanyl trafficker while Americans died in huge numbers from overdoses,\u201d he continued. \u201cJudge Jackson declined to walk Senators through the merits of her reasoning in specific cases. She just kept repeating that it was her discretion, and if Congress didn\u2019t like it, it was our fault for giving her the discretion. That is hardly an explanation as to why she uses her discretion the way she does. It was not reassuring to hear Judge Jackson essentially say that if Senators want her to be tough on crime, we need to change the law, take away her discretion, and force her to do it. That response just seems to confirm that deeply-held personal policy views seep into her jurisprudence. And that is exactly what the record suggests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>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. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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