The Biden administration is keeping more than 48,000 pages of records about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson from senators reviewing her nomination, including documents about her time at the U.S. Sentencing Commission that she has made a central part of her professional story.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is “hiding” records from Jackson’s time as vice chair of the Sentencing Commission, where she championed leniency for child predators, says Michael Davis, former chief counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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“Durbin has refused a request by Republican senators to look at her records on the sentencing commission,” Davis told “Just the News – Not Noise” on Monday, hours after Jackson’s first day of testimony in front of the committee weighing her nomination to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
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“Judge Jackson, for whatever reason, has been maneuvering to try to lessen the punishment for child pornographers,” Davis claimed.
The former Senate Judiciary attorney said that a “major problem” is that Jackson operates on the “empathy standard,” which he defines as “whatever the heck that judge feels that day.”
“When she goes on the Supreme Court, she can just do whatever the heck she wants, under her empathy standard,” Davis said. “She’s not bound by anything. She’s not bound by the law at all. It’s just whatever she feels.”
As a student at Harvard Law, Jackson wrote a paper criticizing what she saw as “excessiveness” in punishments for sex offenders.
“This is a 25-year pattern,” Davis said. “This proves to me that she doesn’t think that people who possess and distribute child pornography are that bad.”
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