Jackson responds to Cruz's questions about reading lists at private school she is on the board of: 'I have not reviewed any of those books, any of those ideas.' 'They don't come up in my work as a judge, which I am, respectfully, here to address.'
in the Supreme Court, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., asked Judge Jackson how she sees her role in maintaining the people's confidence in the judiciary system.Sen. Amy Klobuchar questions Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 22, 2022.
"This nomination against this backdrop is significant to a lot of people, and I hope that it will bring confidence -- it will help inspire people to understand that our courts are like them, that our judges are like them doing the work and being a part of our government," she added.Email this article
"In most cases, if not all of the cases, the government is asking for a sentence below the guidelines because this guidelines system is not doing the work in this particular case," she added. "No, senator, it would not surprise me because these cases are horrific, and there's a lot of disparity because of the way the guidelines are operating in this particular area," Jackson said."But in every case, in every case that I handled involving these terrible crimes, I looked at the law and the facts.
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