On Wednesday, The Senate Judiciary Committee chair said that Joe Biden’s pick to become the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court will begin on March 21.
If the 51-year-old Jackson is confirmed to succeed 83-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer, who last month declared that he would step down this summer.
Meeting Biden’s demand being black and being a woman.
But something from the past continues to haunt Biden’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee.
Fox News reported:
The date for the hearing was announced by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who said she’ll answer questions from senators starting that date.
The first day of the hearing will be limited to statements from each member of the committee, as well as those who will formally introduce Jackson, and Jackson herself. The next two days, Tuesday, March 22 and Wednesday, March 23, will be for senators to question Jackson.
While Republican senators say they have objections to her record and judicial philosophy, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the GOP won’t go down the same path as Democrats have done recently in launching personal attacks against a nominee.
“Sadly, Senate Democrats have undermined the American people’s confidence in previous judicial confirmation processes with vicious personal smears and unfounded accusations,” Cruz said. “These kinds of shameless attacks demeaned the Senate and made a mockery of our constitutional role in providing advice and consent to the president on nominations.”
One of the issues Jackson may have to handle involves her support for sex offenders, Just the News reported.
In fact, she has complained about the “excessiveness” of their punishments.
That came in an article she published – anonymously – back in 1996 in the Harvard Law Review. She failed to disclose her authorship until the Senate Judiciary Committee asked her to list published writings.
The paper criticized the “excessiveness” of punishments for sex offenders, complaining that could be “unfair and unnecessarily burdensome.”
She wrote, “Even in the face of understandable public outrage over repeat sexual predators, a principled prevention/punishment analysis evaluates the effect of the challenged legislation in a manner that reinforces constitutional safeguards against unfair and unnecessarily burdensome legislative action.”
Washington Free Beacon reported more issues with Biden’s Supreme court nominee:
President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee shielded one of Hillary Clinton’s top State Department aides from scrutiny about his use of a personal email account to conduct official business.
Then-U.S. district judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2015 denied Gawker’s request for details about press aide Philippe Reines’s stewardship of the account in the context of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, which sought emails Reines traded with 34 different media outlets. Jackson blocked Gawker’s request, calling it “extraordinary” and claiming there was no proof that Reines had acted in “bad faith” by using a personal email address.
Like Clinton, Reines often communicated with the press via a personal email account. That meant his communiqués were not preserved on State Department systems. When Gawker filed a FOIA request for Reines’s emails in September 2012, State Department officials were thus unable to turn up responsive records, prompting the lawsuit.
The State Department asked Reines to turn over whatever government records were in his possession around the time of the Gawker lawsuit, which he did via his lawyers in July 2015, two years after he left government service. Jackson therefore agreed to give the State Department additional time to sort through the “new” Reines records and turn them over to Gawker. Jackson supervised that process and lawyers for the parties kept her up to date on their progress via status hearings and reports.
Sources: WND, Washington Free Beacon, Just the News, Fox News
