Ellie Mystal said Saturday on MSNBC that Sen. Josh Hawley was 'trying to get' Kentaji Brown Jackson 'killed' by bringing up her record.
's record on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., was"trying to get her killed." to"step up" at this week's confirmation hearings for the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"We know this because when these people go off, making these claims about child pornography, we know that some of their people show up violently to do stuff," Mystal continued, referring to what happened with the 2017He added that he thinks Hawley knows what"Pizzagate is all about" because Jackson was the judge that sentenced Welch, who was responsible for the shooting at Comet Ping Pong, a Washington D.C., pizza parlor, to four years in prison.
U.S. Supreme Court nominee and federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Bourgas a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission and argued that she has a history of"letting child porn offenders off the hook."
CNN and The Washington Post have reported that Jackson's record was taken out of context and that she has"mostly followed the common judicial sentencing practices" in her cases.
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