Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee used the first of three rounds of questioning with Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to relitigate grievances of nominations past or advance mischaracterisations of her record in ways that cast her as an activist who is soft on sex offenders or a proponent of anti-white racism.
The GOP line of attack on Ms Jackson as a paedophile sympathiser was previewed on Monday by Missouri senator Josh Hawley, who in his opening statement accused her of handing down “lenient” sentences for child sex abuse imagery defendants against the wishes of prosecutors.
