Sen. Josh Hawley got the ball rolling on this line of questioning a few days ago with his Twitter thread dealing with President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee giving consumers of child pornography sentences well below federal sentencing guidelines. He got the chance to ask Ketanji Brown Jackson about her sentences Tuesday during Senate confirmation hearings, which led to even more attacks against Hawley, who’s not wrong to be concerned … here’s Sen. Ted Cruz:
Sen. @tedcruz calculates exactly how lenient Judge Jackson has been on child pornography offenders:
"Do you believe the voice of the children is heard when 100% of the time you're sentencing those in possession of child pornography to far below what the prosecutor's asking for?" pic.twitter.com/t6c1gWN8hG
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 22, 2022
The Babylon Bee’s been suspended for calling Rachel Levine a man, but it’s OK for The Onion to call Hawley a pedophiile:
Josh Hawley Slams Ketanji Brown Jackson For Letting Pedophiles Like Himself Walk Free https://t.co/zMyobXOc6Q pic.twitter.com/bBjiuJgOo6
— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 22, 2022
That’s some cutting-edge pro-child pornography humor right there:
I hope legal checked this out beforehand
— (((John))) is mad on the Internet (@tehoriman) March 22, 2022
That looks like slander rather than parody to me.
— Rosehedge (@RosehedgeCap) March 22, 2022
White House Deputy Press Secretary calls Hawley’s line of questioning a “QAnon-signaling smear.”
Hawley's embarrassing, QAnon-signaling smear has been fact checked by: @washingtonpost, @nytimes, @AP, @CNN, @ABC, and @NRO:https://t.co/JDHAWH7l3dhttps://t.co/JbPnmE7lbIhttps://t.co/8DuoUg80hGhttps://t.co/fA4hUmeqGyhttps://t.co/fA4hUmeqGyhttps://t.co/UVCtmAImJ2
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) March 22, 2022
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Dumbest administration ever chimes in and shows yet another topic where they’re woefully uninformed.
— Taro Tsujimoto (@RCannon74) March 22, 2022
This is an embarrassing take. Actual child porn cases are differ than lunatic QAnon theories.
— K Blank (@kjblank80) March 22, 2022
Dems defending pedophilia once again. What’s new?
— Mason (@masonntvc) March 22, 2022
But wait … once Hawley was finished embarrassing himself, Jackson was finally able to reply. But first, hear Hawley out:
Absolutely BRUTAL questions from @HawleyMO to Judge Jackson as he recites her own words back to her:
"Judge, he was 18. These kids are 8. I don't see in what sense they're peers." pic.twitter.com/Xk9gZO4rtU
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 22, 2022
Oh, so it was just “curiosity.”
This is just brutal
KBJ is basically saying “well the kid was only 18.”
Ok…but you still only gave him 3 months for a very large collection of child porn!
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) March 22, 2022
.@HawleyMO now reading NEW statements from Judge Jackson where she explains why she thinks child porn sentencing deadlines are outdated.
— Abigail Marone 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) March 22, 2022
She seems to think possessing 25 pieces of child porn is somehow less an offense then having 2500 because of the Internet. Come again?
— Wiley Thruster (@WileyThruster) March 22, 2022
Yes, in the old days it was much harder to obtain child porn, so sentencing guidelines need to be revised.
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Update:
After back and forth between Hawley and Jackson, Durbin says Congress needs to update sentencing guidelines for sex offenders
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) March 22, 2022
“Update.” Glad Democrats have found another issue to run on in the midterms.
Related:
Ketanji Brown Jackson explaining how federal sentencing guidelines for child pornography offenders are out of date is … not the best look https://t.co/siOdUPt6Py
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 22, 2022
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