Well lookee here. Seems Senate repubs were - gasp - grandstanding at the confirmation hearing
Cruz, Hawley, et al have some 'splainin to do. Though of course they won't be held accountable.
"But Mr. Hawley, Mr. Graham, Mr. Cotton and Mr. Cruz all voted to confirm judges nominated by President Donald J. Trump to appeals courts even though those nominees had given out sentences lighter than prosecutor recommendations in cases involving images of child sex abuse. Mr. Graham had also voted to confirm Judge Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021 in spite of the sentencing decisions she had made as a district judge.
In 2017, Judge Ralph R. Erickson was confirmed by a 95-to-1 vote to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, with Mr. Cotton, Mr. Cruz and Mr. Graham voting in the affirmative. (Mr. Hawley was not yet a senator.) While serving as a district court judge in North Dakota, Judge Erickson imposed sentences shorter than the prosecutor’s recommendations in nine cases involving child sex abuse imagery from 2009 to 2017, averaging 19 percent lower.
In the case with the greatest discrepancy — in which a 68-year-old man pleaded guilty to possessing and transporting such illicit materials — prosecutors asked for 151 months and Judge Erickson imposed a 96-month sentence."
[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-child-abuse-cases.html?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR1v084WAXp0tXpfbOuJjAV8d68kJMv_xKKWie1se4EY9mVYp1yAW6EGDRI|
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Shake this news up and SPRAY IT EVERYWHERE DAMMIT 
