HARRISONVILLE — Missouri Senate candidate Vicky Hartzler released the following statement regarding her opposition to the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Jackson Brown:
“Back in 2018, Democrats — including then-Senator Kamala Harris — ridiculously alleged that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a serial rapist, yet today refuse to acknowledge current nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s horrendous judicial record regarding sexual predators.
The United States Senate must stand up for our children — at home, in the classroom, and in the courtroom.
As Senator, I will relentlessly defend our kids just as I’ve done my entire life and refuse to support any nominee who fails to do the same. Given Judge Jackson’s alarming record handling child pornography, I unequivocally oppose her potential confirmation to the Supreme Court.”
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s alarming record on sex criminals was exposed last week by Missouri Senator Josh Hawley.
- Judge Jackson said she found the “category of nonsexually motivated child pornography offenders” to be “just so interesting.”
- Judge Jackson theorized there “could be a less-serious child pornography offender” whose “motivation is the challenge” while “they aren’t necessarily that interested in the child pornography piece of it.”
- Judge Jackson said she had “mistakingly [sic.] assumed that child pornography offenders are pedophiles” and wanted to “understand this category of nonpedophiles who obtain child pornography.”
For every child pornography case in which Judge Jackson has ruled and for which records are available, she deviated from federal sentencing guidelines in favor of the offenders:
- S. v. Hawkins, where Judge Jackson sentenced a man convicted of possessing child pornography to three months when sentencing guidelines called for 10 years;
- S v. Stewart, where she sentenced a man convicted of possessing thousands of images of child pornography, along with attempting to cross state lines to molest a 9-year-old girl, to 57 months when sentencing guidelines called for 97-121 months;
- S. v Chazin, where Judge Jackson sentenced the defendant to 28 months for possession of child pornography when sentencing guidelines called for 78-97 months.