During her confirmation hearings, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's despicable record on sentencing child porn offenders became a key issue.
We knew her record was terrible during the hearings, but her record is even worse than we thought.
"Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has a record of handing down dramatically lower sentences in criminal cases, but especially lower sentences in cases involving child pornography," explains Senator Ted Cruz, who released a comprehensive analysis of her record.
According to that analysis, Jackson gave sentences nearly 60% shorter than the national average for possession of child porn and nearly 50% shorter for distributors of child porn.
Cruz's analysis found that in every child pornography case that Judge Jackson heard, she sentenced the defendant below the sentencing guidelines and at or below the recommendation from the prosecutor.
Jackson also told him, "I don't feel that it is appropriate, necessarily, to increase the penalty on the basis of your use of a computer or the number of images or prepubescent victims as the Guidelines require because these circumstances exist in many cases, if not most, and don't signal an especially heinous or egregious child pornography offense."
Despite this troubling record, Jackson is on the verge of confirmation.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Ketanji Jackson's Record on Sentencing Child Porn Offenders Is Worse Than We Thought
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