Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee appeared disinterested in grappling with the judiciary’s role in imposing sentences on convicted criminals as they spent most of Wednesday’s confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson badgering the Harvard-educated jurist about matters ranging from a prior confirmation hearing four years ago, to the same series of child sex abuse image cases that dominated the previous day’s questioning.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, noted his GOP colleagues’ aberrant conduct as he opened Wednesday’s session, the third of an expected four-day hearing for Ms Jackson, who currently serves as a judge on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
