Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation: ABA says ‘no evidence’ behind GOP attacks, Republicans question bias

Members of the American Bar Association (ABA) panel that investigated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s legal record rejected GOP claims that President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee has been soft on child pornography offenders. 

Members of ABA’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary testified before the Senate Thursday that their confidential interviews with lawyers who have interacted with Jackson, as well as their review of her cases, revealed that Jackson was an unbiased, brilliant jurist with an “impeccable” record.

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., referenced a tweet from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., where he accused Jackson of letting child porn offenders off the hook and endangering children. Durbin asked the ABA whether such concerns came out in their investigation.

“We did not find any evidence of that,” said Joseph M. Drayton of the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. 

“No evidence of it?” Durbin pressed.

“No evidence,” Drayton said. 

Earlier this week, Hawley and several other Republicans on the Judiciary Committee repeatedly peppered Jackson with questions about her sentencing of child porn offenders as a federal court judge and implied she was too lenient on criminals when her sentences were less than what prosecutors and sentencing guidelines recommended. 

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“All I can say is that your view of how to deter child pornography is not my view,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. told Jackson during one exchange. “I think you’re doing it wrong. And every judge who does what you’re doing is making it easier for the…