Jackson 'regrets' GOP senators' focus on 'small subset of my sentences'

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson hit out at the line of questioning from Republicans during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing Wednesday, telling Sen. Josh Hawley she “regret[s]” that he and his Republican colleagues focused on a “small subset” of her child pornography sentences.

In another bruising day of hearings that focused on sentences Republicans say were lenient, an exasperated Jackson said, “What I regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme Court, we have spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences …”