{"id":1399441,"date":"2022-03-24T21:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T01:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399441"},"modified":"2022-03-24T21:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T01:29:41","slug":"mcconnell-says-he-cannot-and-will-not-support-jackson-for-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-says-he-cannot-and-will-not-support-jackson-for-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Says He \u2018Cannot And Will Not\u2019 Support Jackson For Supreme Court"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fmcconnell-says-he-cannot-and-will-not-support-jackson-for-supreme-court%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=1399441&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>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he \u201ccannot and will not\u201d support the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson in a Thursday speech on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went into the Senate\u2019s process with an open mind,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cBut after studying the nominee\u2019s record and watching her performance this week, I cannot and will not support Judge Jackson for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/13\/lindsey-graham-mcconnell-working-relationship-trump-lead-senate-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">minority leader<\/a> cited her silence on court-packing, saying \u201cJackson was the court packer\u2019s pick, and she testified like it.\u201d The Kentucky Republican said she \u201cdeflected\u201d questions on judicial philosophy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=swjW1Y4fye4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Justice Neil Gorsuch had written over 200 Circuit Court opinions, Justice Brett Kavanaugh over 300, Barrett near 100 Appellate Court opinions in a span of three years. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/22\/judge-jackson-marsha-blackburn-woman-definition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jackson<\/a>, however, has only written two. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/23\/ted-cruz-dick-durbin-scotus-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018You Interrupted Me\u2019: Ted Cruz, Dick Durbin Get Into Heated Exchange At SCOTUS Confirmation Hearing)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McConnell said Jackson\u2019s sentencing record indicates that she will be \u201csoft on crime.\u201d He cited Jackson\u2019s record of sentencing offenders of child pornography and fentanyl use outside of the mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines, then added that she \u201cdeclined\u201d to give reasoning to alleged light sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudge Jackson declined to walk senators through the merits of her reasoning in specific cases,\u201d he continued. \u201cShe just kept repeating 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He suggested both she and President Joe Biden are supporters of \u201cjudicial activism,\u201d in which he said he has spent his career fighting against.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing we saw this week convinced me that either President Biden or Judge Jackson\u2019s deeply invested far-left fan club have misjudged her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/22\/ketanji-brown-jackson-child-pornography-sentencing-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defended<\/a> her sentencing record saying first that Congress determines the Sentencing Guidelines and determining the different circumstances of the case. When pressed by Republican Missouri <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/22\/josh-hawley-judge-jackson-child-porn-offender-scotus-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sen. Josh Hawley<\/a> about the case <em>United States v. Hawkins<\/em>, the nominee said she sentenced the 18-year-old offender to 3 months imprisonment due to the \u201cunusual\u201d case and other factors involved.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/mcconnell-i-cannot-and-will-not-support-jackson-for-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pushed back<\/a> against McConnell\u2019s remarks, saying Jackson provided an appropriate response to court packing questions and that her sentencing record was in the \u201cmainstream.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he \u201ccannot and will not\u201d support the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson in a Thursday speech on the Senate floor.\u201cI went<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"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-1399441","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\/1399441","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\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399441\/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=1399441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}