Biden Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has a history of letting child porn offenders off the hook
U.S. President Joe Bidenâs nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, has a history of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their crimes.
As detailed by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on social media, âJudge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker.â
âSheâs been advocating for it since law school. This goes beyond âsoft on crime.â Iâm concerned that this a record that endangers our children,â he continued.
Hawley cited writings from Jacksonâs past, dating all the way back to her time in law school when she claimed that sex offender status leads to âstigmatization and ostracismâ and that it was necessary to change public policy on sex offenders because she believes it to be driven by a âclimate of fear, hatred & revengeâ against sex offenders.
Iâve been researching the record of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, reading her opinions, articles, interviews & speeches. Iâve noticed an alarming pattern when it comes to Judge Jacksonâs treatment of sex offenders, especially those preying on children
â Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 16, 2022
âIt gets worse,â Hawley explained. âAs a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Judge Jackson advocated for drastic change in how the law treats sex offenders by eliminating the existing mandatory minimum sentences for child porn.â
The Republican senator showed how during a February 2012 U.S. Sentencing Commission hearing, Jackson suggested to a witness that some child porn offenders were possibly âless serious offendersâ because they enjoyed child pornography due to motivations that were not necessarily sexual but rather due to peer pressure.
She also suggested that some people who possess the illicit material âare in this for either the collection, or the people who are loners and find status in their participation in community.â
Hawley asked: âWhat community would that be? The community of child exploiters?â
Jackson also said that she âmistakenly assumed that child pornography offenders are pedophilesâ and that she wanted âto understand this category of nonpedophiles who obtain child pornography.â
Jackson said:
âI guess my thought isâŚthat there are people who get involved with this kind of activity who may not be pedophiles who may not be necessarily interested really in the child pornography but have other motivations with respect to the use of the technology and the being in the group and, you know, there are lots of reasons why people might engage in this. And so Iâm wondering whether you could say that there is a â that there could be a less-serious child pornography offender who is engaging in the type of conduct in the group experience level because their motivation is the challenge, or to use the technology?"
Hawley noted that the Supreme Court nominee âdeviated from the federal sentencing guidelines in favor of child porn offendersâ in âevery case for which we can find records.â
âIn the case of United States v. Hawkins, the sex offender had multiple images of child porn,â Hawley wrote. âHe was over 18. The Sentencing Guidelines called for a sentence of up to 10 years. Judge Jackson sentenced the perpetrator to only 3 months in prison. Three months.â
Hawley cited numerous examples in his massive thread, including the cases of United States v. Sears and United States v. Savage, where sex offenders convicted of child porn offences received lenient sentences that were well below the minimums proposed in federal sentencing guidelines.
âThis is a disturbing record for any judge, but especially one nominated to the highest court in the land,â Hawley wrote. âProtecting the most vulnerable shouldnât be up for debate. Sending child predators to jail shouldnât be controversial.â
The senator has called on the Sentencing Commission for full access to Jacksonâs records, which he says has refused to do so thus far.

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