" That's what Ketanji Brown Jackson said in 2011 after the U.S. Sentencing Commission knocked as much as three years off the prison terms of crack-cocaine convicts.
As vice chair of the commission, Jackson believed the nation's drug laws were overly harsh and especially "unfair" to blacks.
Now vying for a spot on the U.S. Supreme Court, Jackson has struggled to fend off accusations that she is soft on crime.
The Senate confirmation hearings have exposed a pattern: whether as a lawyer, sentencing commissioner, or judge, she has disregarded the warnings or recommendations of prosecutors and investigators while advocating or easing the punishment not just for drug dealers but also child-porn offenders and even accused terrorists.
While guiding the sentencing commission, Jackson didn't just resist federal prosecutors' warnings that granting crack dealers early release would merely put them back in action faster.
Studies show many of them are career criminals whose drug crimes involved guns - like Jackson's own uncle, Thomas Brown Jr., whose life prison sentence she helped get commuted around the same time.
In reality, more than two-thirds of all the drug traffickers who asked for early release got it, and virtually all those denied weren't turned down because they were too dangerous to release, but because they weren't eligible for release in the first place.
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson's Hidden Record: Soft On Drug Dealers, Pedophiles and Terrorists
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