Republicans are attacking Judge Jackson for defending poor people's rights

[babylonsister]

Republicans are attacking Judge Jackson for defending poor people's rights
By Austin Sarat and Dennis Aftergut, opinion contributors — 03/21/22 08:30 AM EDT


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On March 16, Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) laid the groundwork for Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to play the dog-eared “soft on crime” card against Jackson.

Never mind that before Jackson became a federal judge in 2013, she spent seven years at large law firms and seven at the United States Sentencing Commission. Not important to McConnell. He focused exclusively on Jackson’s time as a public defender from 2005-2007.

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There’s more than a hint of hypocrisy in the attack on Judge Jackson’s service as a public defender.

Hawley, Cruz, Cotton and Grassley voiced no concerns about two of Trump’s judicial nominees who had worked as public defenders. They all voted for Trump judicial nominee Clifton L. Corker and for Roderick C. Young, though Corker and Young had spent part of their careers as public defenders. Both are white men.

And the two-facedness of claiming to be defenders of “law-and-order” hardly ends there. Think about the Jan. 6 violent attack on the Capitol. Hawley has used the photo of his famous pre-siege fist-pump to the Jan. 6 crowd to fundraise. Ted Cruz walked back his description of the participants in the Capitol siege as “terrorists” after Tucker Carlson criticized him for it. Cotton and Grassley both voted against a bipartisan commission to investigate the violence.

Law and order, indeed.

These aren’t committed law enforcement hawks; they’re opportunists.

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https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/598978-republicans-are-attacking-judge-jackson-for-defending-poor-peoples-rights

[ck4829]

1. These people are for "law and order" until they are on the business end of it

You’d think a genuine concern for “law and order” would mean the defense attorneys get a say too.

And public defenders? They defend the people that the “order” aspect of law and order failed to protect. When a person slips through the cracks of society, that is a person that order was not there for.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Cough cough Donald Trump

[OLDMDDEM]

2. It's all show

She will be approved, more than likely by a small margin. There may be a decent mind or two in the repug party in the Senate.

[tinymontgomery]

6. My wife said Graham asked why they were even holding

My wife said Graham asked why they were even holding the hearings when it was a given.

Some Democratic senator should have said "I'm with you", hearings are over, let's vote. I would love
to see a reaction to that statement.

I had to stop watching, couldn't take the blowhard republicans.

[OLDMDDEM]

7. I'm tired of the repugs

hypocrisy. She will be approved. The show is for the cameras and constituents. Your wife is correct. Just take a vote and get it over with. They act so immature during these hearings.

[LaMouffette]

3. In reality, they are afraid Justice Jackson will be TOO tough on crime, that is, the crimes

committed by Traitor Trump and by themselves. They fear and despise the fact that Jackson, unlike themselves, has a spotless record and is incorruptible.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Of course they are...It's what they do. nt

[abqtommy]

5. Let's put all the reTHUG Fascists in jail/prison where they belong. That'll take care of

many of our problems.

[MissMillie]

9. A woman who not only KNOWS the Constitution, but lives by it.

There's not much point in saying that everyone is entitled to a legal defense if lawyers can't defend people in court without facing repercussions.