During Judge Jackson’s confirmation hearings, some senators implied empathy and personal experience should not factor in to judgements. But the Supreme Court decisions have always been informed by justices’ identities.
And true to form, Jackson remained calm under pressure, even when Republicans called her character into question and employed racist far-right dog whistles.
When Senator Josh Hawley asked if she regretted her “leninent” sentencing in child pornography cases , she responded with grace and poise: “Senator, what I regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme Court, we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences.
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