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Methodology. i dont come from academia. im not a law professor like some of my other colleagues would be. im going to try to do it as a trial judge. she didnt say as a trial judge, but in that process. >> because she has that experience. >> exactly right. >> which is rare for a supreme court nominee. but on the politics of this, there seemed to have been a little bit of discomfort in some camps in the republican party do we go down this road of the child important porn offenders. >> watching thi...

Was not just a law school view. its one that has continued. so when you were vice chairman of the sentencing commission you expressed significant concerns that the white house has argued that your quotes were taken out of context. so i want to provide the full context of your quote because you said, "yes, i want to ask you about the means by which we can distinguish more or less serious offenders. i know that all of you sort of touched on that. mr. fitrell, you talked about going from singular t...

Believe and then they get on the bench and they go hard a hard left and i think theres real reasons to have concerns that if judge jackson becomes justice jackson, well see of all on the far left, possibly the furthest left of any of the nine justices particularly in criminal justices. its an odd thing. but for 30 years, she has been advocating lighter sentences, more treatment for sexual offenders who target kids and just in general. i have to say, that doesnt make any sense to me and i think t...

In that range, between zero and 20 years a particular defendant should be sentenced. and the guidelines have gradations in them that relate to various aspects of the commission of the crime. sorry. so the commission does data -- does data gathering and research to figure out how crimes are committed and what gradations should matter in terms of the range of culpability, because the problem of not doing that or of getting it wrong is that you are not able to adequately assess and determine the di...

To use this hearing process as a way to destroy or undermine the notions that were hearing about so often. and i think she did a phenomenal job navigating it. but there were moments that she had to answer for her particular record explain her methodology and this talking about whether she indeed is lenient against those who engage in the most despicable behavior as child predators. so that end she was so eloquent, so dynamic, so persuasive and so adamant that nothing could be further from the tr...

Across town to get her here today and she has been very busy since being announced. meeting with various senators who will eventually vote on her and murder boards where they try to prep her for what she will face this week. republicans are raising questions, josh hawley one of them, who said he wants to probe her on whether she is soft on crime and sentencing decisions she made as a judge for child porn convicted offenders. his take on that. >> to the extent we can find her cases she has had 10...

In fact, one writer has said they are meritless to the point of unacceptable levels. nationally, in 2019, only 30% of nonproduction child pornography offenders received a sentence within the guidelines range. fewer than 30%. between 2015 and 2020, in the d.c. district court where you served, judges imposed below guideline sentences in nonproduction cases 80% of the time for the reasons youve just explained. judges in missouri, the home state of the senator whos criticized your record, did so 77%...

Standing ovation but i want to move out if i can the supreme court nomination hearings for judge braxton jackson josh hawley said this about thats our time judge jackson has a padded leading child pouring offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes both as a judge in a policy maker white house policy overwhelming majority of jackson cases involve crimes the sentences were consistent with or above the government are u.s. probation recommended, where do you stand on this? >> supreme court ju...

And then they get on the bench and they vote hard, hard left. and i think theres real reasons to have concerns that if judge jackson becomes justice jackson that we will see a vote on the far left, very possibly the furthest left of any of the nine justices, particularly on criminal justice issues. its an odd thing, but but for 30 years she has been advocating lighter sentences, advocating lighter sentences, more more lenient treatment for sexual offenders, both sexual offenders who targetge kid...

About all the inside jokes, what does this line me, what does that line mean? it was unbelievable that he had a calendar as detailed as it did, detailing over the summer and his life. i dont see how anybody can complain about any question relating to ketanji brown jackson based on the standard that they put in place for brett kavanaugh. in particular, i want to go to the josh hawley data you cited, the opinion he was quizzing her on for this was when she was a judge, effectively what she argued ...