Sen. Mitt Romney on Tuesday criticized his Republican colleagues’ attacks against President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record on child pornography cases.
“It struck me that it was off course, meaning the attacks were off course that came from some,” Romney told The Washington Post’s Paul Kane on Tuesday. “And there is no there, there.”
Several GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday brought up child pornography cases that Jackson dealt with in her time as a federal district judge. The senators said Jackson imposed a lighter sentence than the federal guidelines recommended and argued that she’s lenient toward child pornography offenders.
Fact checkers and legal experts have said the GOP claims lack context and are misleading, citing evidence that Jackson’s sentencing fell within the standards of most federal judges.
Jackson herself rejected the accusations on multiple occasions on Tuesday as Republican senators pressed her on the topic.
“In every case, I did my duty to hold the defendants accountable in light of the evidence and the information that was presented to me,” Jackson said in response to a question from Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who first circulated the claims against her on Twitter last week, used his entire allotted time of questioning to grill Jackson on the child pornography cases.
In what appeared to be her most forceful rejection yet, Jackson repeatedly defended her record and denounced the child pornography crimes.
“As a judge, who is a mom, and has been tasked with the responsibility of actually reviewing the evidence,” Jackson said, “the evidence that you would not describe in polite company, the evidence that you are pointing to, discussing, addressing in this context, is evidence that I have seen in my role as a judge, and it is heinous. It is egregious.”
“What a judge has to do is determine how to sentence defendants proportionately consistent with the elements that the statutes include with the requirements that Congress has set forward,” she added.
Romney does not serve on the Judiciary Committee, but he will vote on Jackson’s confirmation.
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Romney is an Idiot
U hit it right on the HEAD ! MITTY ROMNEY is and ALWAYS been a Born LOSER. I wish the People in UTAH would Wake -Up and see how Romney needs to be recalled by someone with a BRAIN and not Skull of MUSH ! Romney is NO ! Republican he is a JACKAL in Sheep’s Clothing. RECALL Romney !!
You can not trust him. Please get him out of the way. He is a traitor.
Mitty Romney is more than an IDIOT ! HE’S a born loser that the People in UTAH needs to RECALL. RHINO ! Romney has been more of a DemoRat 99.9 % of his Life.
Romney is nothing more than an example of a DEMORAT. PLEASE ! Someone in UTAH Wake-Up and draw up a Petition to RECALL this MORON !!
You can always depend on “Nit’Witt” Romney to make a complete (D)-ass of himself! This black-witch has no business being nominated for the SC but the “Re-PUNK-licans” will cave in as they always do! Look for Thomas to meet his fate very soon – guaranteed!
Wow dude, you are quite the racist!!!
pray tell, what is racist about Volitile Vess’s comments? He simply stated facts as we have seen presented. Anything racist is what U and U alone see. Come on man!
Boy are you racist or what an idiot shame. On you
RIGHT ON !
Romney does not know what the truth is.
Amen ! He is to (D)stuiped and never will !
He is a traitor. You can not trust him. He is a slime ball.
A RINO in full display!!??. That POS must be removed by force!!
The expertise of the left, playing with BIG words to conceal their behavior…forget about the frustrated dumb RINO, concentrated in the Judge’s answers evading herself of wrong doing!
pray tell, what is racist about Volitile Vess’s comments? He simply stated facts as we have seen presented. Anything racist is what U and U alone see. Come on man!
Romney would you PLEASE get out of America, You are not a American, you belong in China or Maybe iran along with Biden. Go destroy another Country. Leave the USA alone.
Why doesn’t Mitt Romney just join the Democratic Party.
Maybe we my to investigate Mitt Romney computer
Maybe we need to investigate Mitt Romney computer.He might have something to hide.