I talked about what this crime does to the children who are being abused in these photos," Jackson said Wednesday.
Every person, I discussed the harm of these terrible, terrible images to the victims who are portrayed in them. Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is 'desperate' to avoid testifying under oath to prosecutors in Georgia over his phone call with Georgia Secretary of State. "Every person in all of these charts and documents, I sent to jail because I know how serious this crime is. Jackson, throughout her confirmation hearings this week, has repeatedly defended her record, denounced the child-pornography crimes, and explained to Graham, along with other Republican senators, her job as a judge. Mitt Romney of Utah, have distanced themselves from their GOP colleagues' attacks on Jackson. Legal experts have debunked the accusations, saying they leave out key context and data showing Jackson's conduct was within the mainstream of federal judges and that the guidelines are overly severe and outdated. Several Republicans have claimed that Jackson, in her time as a federal district judge, was lenient with child-pornography offenders because she imposed sentences shorter than those recommended by federal guidelines. has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and kidnapping in. The conversation then shifted back to Jackson's record on child-pornography cases. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has asked a Georgia federal judge to bar the Fulton County District Attorney’s. But I'm trying to make a point in 20 minutes." She filibustered every question I had, and she has a right to give an answer. Unfortunately, the exercise hinges on Republican senators having a conscience, and as they’ve exhaustively shown for years now, they do not. Graham had exceeded his allotted questioning time, prompting Durbin, a top Democrat and the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to interrupt him. The exchange came to a head when Graham pivoted to ask Jackson about Justice Brett Kavanaugh's 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings. When his time was nearing its end, Graham repeatedly interrupted Jackson as she tried to answer his questions. Graham asked Jackson for her positions on unauthorized immigrants and voting and pressed her on her sentencing record in child-pornography cases during his 20 minutes of questioning. Lindsey Graham and the Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson after the South Carolina Republican kept interrupting the judge as she answered questions during her third day of confirmation hearings.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin on Wednesday intervened in a back-and-forth between Sen.
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