{"id":1401311,"date":"2022-03-26T00:14:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T04:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401311"},"modified":"2022-03-26T00:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T04:14:53","slug":"senate-republicans-demand-answers-on-ketanji-brown-jacksons-three-month-sentence-for-sex-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-demand-answers-on-ketanji-brown-jacksons-three-month-sentence-for-sex-offender\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans Demand Answers on Ketanji Brown Jackson&#039;s Three-Month Sentence for Sex Offender"},"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%2Fsenate-republicans-demand-answers-on-ketanji-brown-jacksons-three-month-sentence-for-sex-offender%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=1401311&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\">Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding answers from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court (SCOTUS), on a case in which she sentenced a man to just three months in prison for viewing child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>During her confirmation hearing, a number of GOP Senators mentioned the 2013 case of then-18-year-old Wesley Hawkins, who received a sentence of three months in prison from Jackson for having child pornography depicting prepubescent boys engaged in sex acts in his possession.<\/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>Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of two years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jackson, as the <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2022\/03\/24\/hawkins-brown-jackson-pornography-sentence\/\">confirmed<\/a> this week, ordered Hawkins in 2019 to complete his terms of supervision in a halfway house. The order came after Hawkins continued \u201cto seek out sexually arousing, non-pornographic material and images of males 13 to 16-years-old,\u201d according to the probation officer petition filed at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR),\u00a0Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ben Sasse (R-NE), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Kennedy (R-LA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotton.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/sjc_republicans_letter_to_judge_jackson_on_wesley_hawkins.pdf\">they want specifics<\/a> on the case from Jackson:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Consistent with measures necessary to protect the privacy of the victims and other innocent third parties, <strong>please immediately provide the Committee with a copy of the probation petition that you referenced in that April 2019 order, and an explanation of what Hawkins did in 2019<\/strong> that earned him twice as much time in [Bureau of Prisons] custody as your original three-month sentence. [Emphasis added]\n<p><strong>If discussing those details necessitates confidentiality, please contact the Committee to schedule a closed-door briefing on the topic<\/strong>. Further, please confirm whether computer monitoring software was already required prior to 2019 as part of your original sentence in the Hawkins case. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jackson, during the course of her hearings before the committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/23\/watch-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-wont-say-if-she-regrets-short-child-porn-sentences\/\">seemed unphased<\/a> by her history of sentencing felons to prison terms that were lower than those recommended by the Sentencing Commission.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when asked by Hawley if she regretted sentencing Hawkins to only three months in jail, she responded that her only \u201cregret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme Court, we\u2019ve spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences and I\u2019ve tried to explain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding answers from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court (SCOTUS), on a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-1401311","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\/1401311","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401311\/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=1401311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}