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Of race. when you just testified a minute agogo that you didnt know if critical race theory r was taught in k through 12, i will confessac i find that statement a little hard to reconcile i with the public record. >> i do not believe that any child should be made to feel as though they are racist or ho though they are not valued or though they are less thanha that they are victims, that they are oppressors. es >> i dont believe in any of that and ill confess, jackson ,as look as i listen tolc yo...

Slogans to me. >> senator from missouri said in his tweets that judge jackson has a pattern of lead in child pornographer offenders off the hook for the crimes. >> as a mother and a judge who has had to deal with these cases, i was thinking that nothing could be further from the truth. >> just a little while ago, supreme court nominee, ketanji brown jackson, wrapped up more than 13 hours of answering senators questions. as the new york times any carney points out, today was just a preview of lik...

Just a law school view. its one that has continued. when you were vice chairman of sentencing commission, you expressed significant concerns that the white house has argued that your quotes were taken out of context. i want to provide the full context of your quote. you said, yes, i want to ask you about the means by which we can distinguish more or less serious offenders. i know all of you touched on that. you could say the least singular offenders are in the serious stans. i was surprised at s...

Established record of being solved on criminals, particularly offenders. the criminals of all stripes. i hope republicans will stand together and i hope the voters will get a chance to weigh in on this, sean, when they say in november that this is the kind of judge that joe biden wanted on the u.s. supreme court, another soft on crime judge. >> sean: lets look at bidens budget, the largest tax hike so far in the history of the country. joe biden and the socialist democrats, they would like to ta...

Recidivism rates, the most recent, but i think an eight-year lookback says that 49% of the people incarcerated are re-arrested within eight years. if you take a look at the types that are most likely to be reoffending, its firearms offenders, robbery offenders, violent offenders, re-offended at a higher rate than non-violent offenders. and so if i look at this and i look at your philosophy with respect and its admirable. i want the content of your character would be demonstrated this week in an ...

Given a speech at a law school where she said that sentencing what judges do involves critical race theory. and i got to say there was a lot of discussion about her record when it concernsof sexual offenders and in particular sexual predators targeted at kids as you just played. i asked her about what she wrote in law schoolke that suggested that the laws that many states have passed providing for civil commitment for violent sexual predators, that those laws are unconstitutional. and you know, ...

Review of parole. theres been a number of celebrated cases which have credited huge concerns and anxiety for victims and the public. we think about the -- and we said we would do a branch review im announcing the details of what our proposal is today. they will look at everything from the role of victims, i think their voice should be heard more clearly during the parole process. above all, particularly for dangerous offenders. i want to make sure the pearl process is re-anchored back into the -...

And dna bank laws could well be struck down as well. is that an outcome that should concern people? >> senator, my note wucasnt advocating for the striking down of those laws. my note was trying to identify criteria that i thought would be applied consistently to determine whether the laws were punitive or preventative. either -- >> you argue they were pun tifr and you further say if they are punitive, they are unconstitutional. >> i was looking at four different kinds of laws and not all of the...

The point of the guidelines is to help judges figure out where in that range, between 0 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. >> go ahead. >> 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 get...

Continued efforts by senators to get jackson to formally express her judicial philosophy. she avoided a specific label, but said this about her role. >> have limited power and i am trying in every case to stay in my lane. >> today brought up the sentences for defendants convicted of possessing child porn. >> every single case, the prosecutors can be for you with child porn cases, you sentenced offenders to substantially below not just guidelines but way higher what the prosecutor asked for. >> i...