Lindsey Graham brings fire to SCOTUS nom over child porn sentencing: ‘put their ass in jail!’

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Sparks flew again on Wednesday during the third day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings with Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans raking her over the coals on her sentencing guidelines for child pornography offenders.

President Joe Biden’s first nominee to the SCOTUS spent the previous session fending off a fierce line of questioning by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas who tried to get responses on the judge’s philosophy on Critical Race Theory, probing that was so intense that he was assailed by leftists including one MSNBC guest who accused him of committing a hate crime. But Jackson was able to dodge giving a straight answer.

The hatred will now be refocused on Sen. Lindsey Graham whose relentless effort to get an explanation over inconsistencies in her treatment of pedophiles which has been a matter of great concern to conservative lawmakers who fear that she is soft on criminals, especially the worst of the worst who prey on helpless children and then exchange images of their reprehensible deeds online.

One matter of contention that flustered Graham was the D.C. Appeals Court judge’s disparate treatment of offenders who trafficked kiddie porn using the mail versus those who did so over the internet, an exchange in which he angrily said that the best deterrent was to “put their ass in jail, not supervise their computer usage.”

Graham then revisited the despicable manner in which Democrats played dirty pool to sabotage the nomination of Trump nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was the target of a vicious smear campaign after Dems waited until the late stages of the process to spring their scurrilous allegations that he was guilty of a decades-old sexual assault.

“He was ambushed,” Graham said. “How would you feel if we did that to you?”

(Video: YouTube: C-SPAN)

After his detour into the Kavanaugh hearings, Graham resumed his back and forth with Jackson over her child pornography sentencing guidelines.

“At the time the guidelines were created for child pornography, this crime was primarily being committed by people who were literally mailing one, two, five, ten, a hundred photos at a time,” she said.

“How’s it being committed now?” Graham shot back.

“As a result,” Jackson continued, “the commission determined in the guidelines that it was a substantial aggravating factor if the facts of the case demonstrated that someone had been distributing hundreds of images because what they meant was over this long… maybe it was a long period of time, they had collected one photo at a time, they had amassed it, they had potentially mailed one at a time and that showed really aggravated terrible conduct.”

“I’m not saying as a baseline it’s not terrible…it’s all terrible but what we’re doing is we’re differentiating among defendants,” she rambled on as Graham’s time ticked down.

“So in a world in which the mail is used for the purpose of distribution, it really matters whether the person has distributed one, or five, or a thousand,” she said, “and so the guidelines said, you know what, we are going to treat a person who’s distributed a thousand a lot worse because that shows that this person is really engaged in this really horrible behavior”

“In comes the internet,” she added. “On the internet, with one click you can receive, you can distribute tens of thousands… you can be doing this for 15 minutes, and all of sudden, you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years in prison…”

“Good,” Graham said, finally able to get a word in.

“Good, absolutely good, I hope are, I hope you go to jail for 50 years if you’re on the internet trolling for images of children in sexual exploitation situations, see you don’t think that’s a bad thing, I think that’s a horrible thing,” he added, rejecting the idea that perverts using the internet should be treated with leniency.

Graham’s questioning of the nominee triggered committee Democrats including grandstanding Dean of the Senate, Patrick Leahy of Vermont who whined about the unfairness of it all and stormed out of the room.

According to an account by MSNBC’s Chris Jansing, “A visibly angry Sen Leahy left the hearing room and called Graham’s questioning of Judge Jackson ‘beyond the pale…As the Dean of the Senate…I’m just distressed to see this kind of a complete breakdown of what’s normally the way the Senate’s handled…he’s badgering her””

The confirmation hearings will pick up again on Thursday morning.

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