Sen. Cory Booker strongly rebuked Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday for their “straw man” criticism over Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson‘s sentencing record, saying, “These are just lies.”

“Judge Jackson is not an extremist. She is not out of the judicial norm,” Booker said, who spoke after Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, reaffirmed his vote against Jackson due to her record of sentencing child pornography offenders below the United States Sentencing Commission’s recommended length of time.

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