AP FACT CHECK: Republicans twist Jackson's judicial record

[riversedge]

Hearings for Jackson start tomorrow. Will be interesting to hear if Repugs use any of the examples used in this article. several included




AP FACT CHECK: Republicans twist Jackson’s judicial record


https://apnews.com/article/ketanji-brown-jackson-us-supreme-court-ap-fact-check-child-pornography-josh-hawley-68d5a59edf46ea3f28e35cf32f84fe19



By WILL WEISSERT and CALVIN WOODWARDtoday



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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE: “Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record also includes defending terrorists.” — tweet from RNC Research on Feb. 25.

THE FACTS: That’s misleading on several fronts.

First, she did not defend convicted terrorists but rather suspects. The RNC ignored the presumption of innocence that is at the heart of the legal system. Second, defending people accused of a crime is exactly what defense lawyers are supposed to do. That’s why public defender’s offices exist – to represent suspects who cannot afford a lawyer or who have cases that lawyers for hire don’t want to take.

Jackson was working in the federal public defender’s office in the District of Columbia when she was assigned four Guantanamo Bay detainees, later continuing some of her work with them in private practice. This was after the Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that the detainees could file lawsuits challenging their indefinite detention.

Even those who were charged had those charges dropped, and all were eventually released. None was convicted by the military commissions created to try detainees..............................

[Turbineguy]

1. Republicans don't worry about fair trials

because they get expect to away with their crimes.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Here's the tweet from RNC Research. The Cato Institute told them off.

Sat Feb 26, 2022: Dear RNC: we at the @CatoInstitute make no apology for our amicus brief in Al-Marri v. Spagone ...

StandWithUkraineHat Retweeted

Dear RNC: we at the
@CatoInstitute
make no apology for our amicus brief in Al-Marri v. Spagone, on use of Executive military power to detain lawful U.S. residents, ably assisted by Ketanji Brown Jackson, then in private practice. /1 https://cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/al_marri_v_USN.pdf

Link to tweet

We're glad #SCOTUS proceeded to vacate the CA4 ruling at issue. The federal government then prosecuted on civilian charges, which was the correct way to proceed. The constitutional principles at stake were important and protect many other persons. /2, end

Link to tweet

Sat Feb 26, 2022: 2007: JAG Officer Takes on His Bosses Over Guantanamo Detainee

FLORIDA BAR NEWS

JAG OFFICER TAKES ON HIS BOSSES OVER GUANTANAMO DETAINEE

August 1, 2007 Regular News

JAG officer takes on his bosses over Guantanamo detainee

Gary Blankenship
Senior Editor

To hear Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charles D. Swift tell it, he didn’t do anything special.

As a judge advocate general officer, he only represented Salim Ahmet Hamdan, one of the former drivers for Osama bin Laden and one of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. In representing his client, he challenged in court his bosses, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and President George W. Bush, on the legality of the military commissions they set up to hear cases against the detainees.

He took the challenge, with help from a law professor and a law firm, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court – and won ( Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. ____, 126 S.Ct. 2749 (2006)). The court ruled that the commission violated not only the Geneva Convention, to which the U.S. is a signatory, but also the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Two weeks after that decision, Swift, who besides his law degree has a master of litigation degree with high honors, learned he had been passed over for promotion. Under the military’s “up-or-out” policy, that meant his 20-plus year military career was ending.

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[CBHagman]

3. Thank you for posting, and we have to reveal the attacks for the demagoguery they are.

There have been a couple of articles in recent days both about the sense that the GOP had not worked out a line of attack and about the shape the attacks will be taking. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has already played the "protect our children" card by accusing Judge Brown of coddling pornographers and pedophiles. It's clear from the developing story and from past events that the Republican Party, Fox News, et al. will throw everything they can at the wall and see what sticks.

And we should do more than respond by debunking the attacks. We need to put her record out there, address how things work (there's a HUGE gap in the public's knowledge there), and lay the misogynist and racist elements of any attacks bare.

I have faith that we are looking at our first Black female justice, but the fight before the confirmation vote is going to be hellaciously ugly, and in a spring of rare ugliness, nationally and globally.

[SheilaAnn]

5. But they have no problem with Clarence Thomas....sigh.

[halfulglas]

4. Ahem!! They do realize that a vast number of the 1/6 terrorists arrested

Are defended by Public Defenders, don't they? Public Defenders are sworn to defend their clients.