The Senate Judiciary Committee completed its second day of confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, closed the second day of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings by blasting"inaccurate" Republican statements about the judge.
Although a 2005 legal filing from Jackson, then working as a public defender on behalf of Guantanamo Bay detainee Khiali-Gul, did claim that Bush and Rumsfeld violated the Geneva Conventions, Jackson"It was said that you always sentence criminals too lightly," Durbin continued."That's not exactly true."
Durbin insisted that"the truth" was that Jackson had"sentenced more than a hundred defendants, some to decades in prison" and that her sentences"were in line with the recommendations of the government or the probation office in the vast majority of cases that you heard." Senator John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, began his questioning telling Jackson that he found her to be"very intelligent and very articulate." He then asked the judge whether she supported"efforts to delegitimize the United States Supreme Court."
"It would not be appropriate for me, in my view, to comment on calls to 'pack the court,' as you say, to increase the number, to do any structural changes," Jackson said. Kennedy continued to push, with Jackson eventually saying that she did not have a"strong opinion" on the matter but thought it not"appropriate" to share the opinion she did have.
"This implication that somehow your thoughtfulness on these very dense, fact-specific cases is somehow out of the norm, to me, does not hold up," said Booker. "Senator, that's a policy question about the egregious crime of rape," Jackson responded."And Congress has said that the court is supposed to take into account a number of factors when it sentences... I can't answer in the abstract."After the Arkansas Republican complained that Jackson was not adequately answering"not tough" questions, the judge responded that they were not questions she was qualified to answer.
Cruz asked whether"the White House is providing differential material on this nominee's background to Democratic members than Republican members," contending that it was unclear where"Senator Hirono would get access to them other than from the White House."
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