White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday rejected what she described as "disingenuous attacks" on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson from Republicans regarding her rulings in a number of child pornography-related cases, just days before the start of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
Psaki was asked about the line of criticism into Brown's record. The Missouri Republican accused President Joe Biden's judicial nominee of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker.
Psaki blasted Republicans for what she described as an evolving series of attacks that were based on desperation.
After weeks of trying hard to find a way to attack Judge Jackson, she said she would be suspect because she was a public defender.
The facts are that the majority of cases involving child sex crimes are consistent with what the government recommends. Over the last couple of days, we have seen an attack that relies on factual inaccuracies and takes Judge Jackson's record out of context.
All the offices of Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have reached out regarding the issue of Jackson's previous sentencing rulings.
The gravity of the issue was stressed by Psaki and she asked that it not be reduced to baseless charges.
We hope that those who are taking this process seriously, or state that they are taking this process seriously, will look at the facts and not make false statements.
The GOP attacks were labeled toxic and weakly-presented misinformation by the White House on Thursday.
The leader of the International Association of Chiefs of Police praised Jackson for her dedication to ensuring that our communities are safe and that the interests of justice are served.
Jackson is a mother of two children.
The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman criticized any suggestion that Jackson sympathized with child molesters.
I don't believe in it being taken seriously. It really tests the committee as to whether we will be respectful in the way we treat this nominee.
The US Sentencing Commission is an independent agency that develops sentencing guidelines for the federal courts.
The commission is balanced between Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, and she went along with the overwhelming majority of federal judges. He thinks he has discovered something.
If she is confirmed, Jackson will become the first Black woman to sit on the high court. She is expected to receive the votes of all 50 Democratic and Democratic-aligned senators in the evenly-divided Senate, with party leaders hoping to peel off several Republicans to achieve a bipartisan vote.
Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska both voted for Jackson to be confirmed to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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