For a second day, Texas' two U.S. Senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, pressed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson about her judicial and legal records during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
– For a second day, Texas’ two U.S. Senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, pressed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson about her judicial and legal records during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
Durbin didn’t grant Cruz more time after he repeatedly asked Judge Jackson about the sentences, she imposed against those convicted of child pornography. Judge Jackson said, “Senator, no one case can stand in for a judge’s entire sentencing record. I’ve sentenced more than 100 people. You have eight or nine cases in that chart.”Democratic Senators said Judge Jackson’s sentences overall were very similar to other federal judges.
It concerned the 2005 court document in which Jackson, then a public defender representing Khiali-Gul, detained at Guantanamo Bay for being involved in the September 11 terror attack, accused former President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of “conspiring to bring about the torture and other inhumane treatment of Petitioner Khiali-Gul constitute war crimes and/or crimes against humanity.
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