{"id":1421623,"date":"2022-04-06T10:44:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421623"},"modified":"2022-04-06T10:44:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:44:36","slug":"democrats-block-hawley-bill-that-increases-penalties-on-child-sex-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-block-hawley-bill-that-increases-penalties-on-child-sex-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Block Hawley Bill That Increases Penalties on Child Sex Offenders"},"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\">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%2Fdemocrats-block-hawley-bill-that-increases-penalties-on-child-sex-offenders%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=1421623&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><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">S<\/span>enator Josh Hawley, who led the charge in exposing Biden SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s history of lenient sentences for child porn offenders, introduced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawley.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-03\/Hawley%20PROTECT%20ACT.pdf\">PROTECT Act of 2022<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Act would\u2019ve set a five-year mandatory minimum sentence for child pornography offenses and prohibit Judges like Jackson from sentencing below the guidelines range.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, the Act faced opposition from Democrats, with Senator Dick Durbin questioning the timing of the legislation. \u201cWhy now?\u201d he asked. \u201cI know why. He said as much,\u201d Durbin said. \u201cThis senator has suggested over the course of the last two weeks and hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee that somehow this judge\u2026 aspiring to the Supreme Court is out of the mainstream when it comes to sentencing in child pornography cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Act is modeled after a similar bill from 2003 that was passed 84-0 (but was gutted by the SCOTUS in 2005), with Sen. Durbin among those voting in favor.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Hawley fired back \u00a0\u201cThe Senator from Illinois says Congress hasn\u2019t acted in 2 decades. That\u2019s true. I haven\u2019t been here for 2 decades. He has,\u201d adding \u201cthe Senator doesn\u2019t want tougher sentences, he doesn\u2019t want to talk about this issue, he wants to sleep it under the rug. I\u2019m here to say I won\u2019t let that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Hawley was denied unanimous consent by Durbin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just went to the Senate floor to try to pass a bill toughening sentences on child pornographers. And the Democrats blocked it, again calling the child porn crisis a \u201cconspiracy theory.\u201d And that tells you everything you need to know<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1511390192489447439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Child exploitation is a crisis. It\u2019s exploding but Democrats refuse to act. They blocked my legislation on the floor today. They are the soft on crime party <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5anL9Zntn5\">pic.twitter.com\/5anL9Zntn5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1511417434359668743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the liberal media appears bewildered by the rise in people describing Democrats as \u201cgroomers.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The last 24 hours in DC corporate media: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VR29ClrnvG\">pic.twitter.com\/VR29ClrnvG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1511690360820404229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Matt Palumbo is the author of\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/posthillpress.com\/book\/man-behind-the-curtain-inside-the-secret-network-of-george-soros\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/posthillpress.com\/book\/man-behind-the-curtain-inside-the-secret-network-of-george-soros\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss The Dan Bongino Show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Josh Hawley, who led the charge in exposing Biden SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s history of lenient sentences for child porn offenders, introduced the PROTECT Act of 2022 last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"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-1421623","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\/1421623","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421623\/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=1421623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}