Durbin: ‘Three or four’ Republican senators ‘went over the line’ in Jackson hearing

While most Republicans asked challenging but respectful questions of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, during her confirmation hearings, “three or four Republican senators went over the line,” Sen. Dick Durbin said Tuesday.

In her confirmation hearing last week, Jackson faced questions from Republicans that ranged from serious to brutal on topics including her sentencing record as a trial judge. Some Republicans, notably Sens. Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, characterized Jackson as lenient in some cases involving child pornography offenses. Jackson and her supporters said her sentencing record is within legal norms.