Hawley takes Jackson to task on lenient child porn sentencing

Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley extensively questioned Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday with regard to cases in which she sentenced child pornography offenders to shorter lengths than the Sentencing Commission recommends.

Hawley, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who said he was “troubled” over Jackson’s sentencing record in a viral Twitter thread last week, brought up a specific 2013 case, United States v. Hawkins, involving an 18-year-old defendant whom Jackson sentenced to three months in federal prison for possession of child pornography despite the government requesting 24 months in prison.