Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson left conservative jaws on the floor on Wednesday when she claimed that pedophiles caught with child porn should not serve jail time.
According to the SCOTUS nominee, ‘supervision‘ is an adequate punishment for child pornography distributors and consumers.
The shocking comment caused Sen. Lindsay Graham in to interject, angrily stating that we should “send their asses to jail.”
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Sen. Lindsay Graham asked the Jackson about other issues, including whether an illegal immigrant should be allowed to vote or if a 20-week-old fetus can feel pain, to which she said she did not know.
DailyMail report: Jackson pushed back against the South Carolina senator’s claim that she believes the number of images viewed or distributed shouldn’t be considered in child porn cases’ sentencing. She insisted instead that her judicial record does show that she imposed ‘substantial’ internet supervision on violators.
‘Wait, you think it is a bigger deterrent to take somebody who is on a computer, looking at sexual images of children in the most disgusting way, is to supervise their computer habit versus putting them in jail?’ Graham questioned, raising his voice and showing visual disgust.
‘No, I didn’t say versus,’ Jackson tried to clarify but was interrupted by Graham’s irate line of questioning.
‘That’s exactly what you said,’ the Republican lawmaker asserted.
‘I think the best way to deter people from getting on a computer and viewing thousands and hundred – and over time maybe millions, the population as a whole – of children being exploited and abused every time somebody clicks on is to put their a** in jail,’ he offered. ‘Not supervise their computer usage.’
Graham’s 20 minutes of questioning was in line with other criticism of Jackson issued Tuesday when Republicans questioned Jackson on her sentencing of child porn offenders.
Earlier in the hearing on Wednesday, Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin tried to defend Jackson during his short opening remarks by claiming her sentencing record with child porn cases were in line with 80 percent of other judges in similar cases.
On the third day of the animated Senate hearing:
- Republicans accused Democratic chairman Dick Durbin of ‘editorializing’ their points and backing Jackson.
- Durbin tried to interject multiple times to stop Republican senators going over their allotted times.
- He also apologized to Jackson for having to face questions on ‘culture war theories’ that have no place in ‘mainstream America’.
- Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff criticized the ‘bickering’ over timing and procedure during the hearing.
Jackson tried to defend herself again on Wednesday, claiming that in the age of the internet it’s a lot harder to differentiate between severity of child porn offenders. She claimed before the time of the web, you could easily distinguish sentencing of someone who had received one image versus one thousand.
‘In comes the internet,’ she explained of the changing landscape of the child pornography industry. ‘With one click you can receive, you can distribute tens of thousands.’
‘You can be doing this for 15 minutes and all of a sudden, you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years in prison,’ she said.
‘Good! Good! Absolutely, good! I hope you are!’ Graham shouted back.
‘I hope you go to jail for 50 years if you’re on the internet trolling for images of children and sexual exploitation,’ he said.
Also in the midst of Graham’s re-questioning period Wednesday he asked Jackson about abortion.
‘Can an unborn child feel pain at 20 weeks in the birthing process?’ Graham asked.
‘Senator, I don’t know,’ she replied.
He explained that anesthesia is administered to an unborn fetus if there is an operation to save their life at this period in a pregnancy because they ‘can, in facet, feel pain.’
She said she was also unaware of that.
Graham said that these types of issues may ‘come before you one day’ and asked that she ‘keep an open mind’ when it comes to the issue.
Baxter Dmitry
Email: baxter@thepeoplesvoice.tv
She didn’t watch the Cavanaugh hearings, now we know she is a big fat liar. OMG!!!
Her uncles, 1 was miami police chief, the other sentenced to life in prison for cocaine possession. Drug traffickers rely on recruiting kids using pedophilia to lock them into networks.
Obama let her criminal uncle out.
She leaked out in the video before Linsey stopped her, she said “Our meeting in your office”….So she went around and got briefed with what she was going to be confronting. She was given a rehearsal in other words. Sorry for not communicating well today. but you know what I mean.
when she is speaking about the child porn sentencing issue, I got lost in that BS.
You need to learn to listen to other people to understand what they’re saying. Otherwise you miss out.
She is right about this. Simply looking at something cannot possibly cause any damage to anyone. Trying to argue that looking at a picture harms anyone is silly. The only legitimate function government can have is to protect persons and property. The people who actually harm children are the criminals. One could argue that distributing pornography should be illegal. Outlawing looking at a picture moves into the realm of fantasy law.
Scientific evidence proves most learning is visual. People look first. That then regulates responses. It’s basic STIMULUS RESPONSE.
Sad that the Republican pols lack the ability to humiliate the Dems, for putting forth such a profoundly undeserving nominee.
Sads a bit too kind. Sinister. Especially when the facts provide plenty of ammunition, but your right, they all play act this totally ridiculous disgusting game of never telling the truth but just pretending they’re all innocents with differing view points.
They should be targeting the industry and they need to stop lying about exactly how any is can locate exactly who posted what and from what device when where. They won’t though. They just go after the consumer not the producer. And that’s revealing in itself. So it’s the usual morality. Thou Shall mot get caught and if you do it’s every man for himself.
Also they need to stop creating the impression that anyone post puberty is a child. A child, children are pre pubescent.
Any isp I typed.
The truth to it all is being secreted away by the DOJ hiding as much as possible the Sarah Lawrence prostitution racket that’s been on trial for 3 years now. And who knew? The biggest criminal conspiracy to threaten the most elite members of NYC iry ever in my lifetime And their totally hiding it because the indications and deductions related to the whole business would lead to the exposure of the most corrupt people in the world.
The jails are full of wife beaters and rapists so if she let them all go back to WTF they do she would`nt have a job as the jail system would fail without them.So she wants to do nothing?.How many kid`s go missing worldwide every years? human trafficking is the worst crime and she wants to do nothing?
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