Day two of Judge Ketanji Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, she was asked to defend her decision to give child porn offenders and pedophiles lighter sentences. Because there was more child porn, her argument called for a loosening of sentences. This argument is not valid. The View spent part of their Tuesday show vehemently defending it by calling it “very normal.”
“But, of course, yesterday some Republicans whose names you know, used their time at the hearing to bitch,” Whoopi Goldberg was furious. “They put their grievances out there – grievances from like 1910 all the way up to yesterday. And take a listen to what was said.”
Sara Haines was a co-host and played off that hostility for Republicans. Senator Lindsey Graham took “the mic to troll her a little bit about every other hearing that’s ever gone on in the history of time” and “robbed” Americans from seeing a serious hearing with all this scrutiny of Jackson’s record.
Then, she suggested that looking at the rulings of child porn cases in which she was a judge was an act of robbery.
Haines suggested that if “you actually look into it, even for one minute” you would understand that Jackson’s leniency “falls within a very normal spectrum of how she has – they’ve corrected their guidelines for what the law has not caught up in with technology.”
The ViewCo-hosts never explained to me why people with very little child porn, if any, should receive shorter sentences. Instead of increasing sentences for those who have more, they could keep that sentence unchanged.
But that simple question didn’t stop Haines from becoming indignation of the grilling Jackson was getting:
But the look on her face – Because the worst thing – the most triggering crime for me is pedophilia and child pornography, just as a human. I didn’t need to be parent to be disgusted by that. This is the most visceral response you will see when you look at her with all of her respectability as they grill and question her. And she did what a Supreme Court justice – a future Supreme Court justice should do, she stayed there steady as ever and deliberate.
“But I thought I would not have had the self-control to like ‘are you seriously asking me that’ on the heels of describing her beautiful family, by the way, that was all there to support her,”She groaned.
While they were nearing the end of the segment, Goldberg and co-host Joy Behar took issue with Republicans supposedly resorting to “political theater because they want to show up what was done to the last two.”
“But she’s not been really accused of sexual impropriety,” Behar declared, referring to Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh. According to her, mere accusations (which are proven lies) constitute the committing of “a crime.” “Used to be,” Goldberg scoffed.
“She’s been accused of nothing,”Haines screamed, not realizing the allegations of being soft on pedophiles.
Behar closed the segment asking: “The point is there’s no equivalency there. And so they should that stop that now!”
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Below is the transcript. Click “expand to read:
ABC’s The View
March 22, 2022
Eastern, 11:03:15(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG : Yesterday, however, some Republicans (whose names you are familiar with) used the time of yesterday’s hearing to gossip. Okay? They put their grievances out there – grievances from like 1910 all the way up to yesterday. Listen to the speech.
[Cuts to video]
SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): No one is going to ask you with mock severity “do you like beer?”
LINDSEY GRAHAM (R – SC): It is a new game in the Supreme Court. This is what I find particularly troubling. There’s been an attempt by the left to remove a state nominee.
SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN(R-TN),: What’s your secret agenda? Are you allowing violent criminals, cop killers and child predators to go back on the streets? Is it to restrict parental rights and expand government’s reach into our schools and our private family decisions? It is it to back the attempt of the radical left to fill the Supreme Court.
[Cuts back to live]
How do you feel about JOY BEHAR?
GOLDBERG: Yeah. This was inevitable, but you didn’t know it. It was inevitable. This was what they said. It shouldn’t come as a surprise. Are you sure that it will continue all week?
BEHAR: Probably.
(…)
Eastern, 11:06:22
SARA HAINES: I know we’re going to Critical Race Theory as the show does on, but in regard right now to this hearing, when I left the TV, they were taking a lot of the time we could be hearing about Judge Brown’s record and a lot of her thoughts and philosophies, which was what I remember about these hearings. It is not uncommon to hear difficult questions, and the answer comes back.
Now, Senator Graham is taking over the microphone to talk about all the hearings that have ever taken place in history. It felt as if we had been robbed by seeing the future Supreme Court justice reveal who she was.
BEHAR: Grassley asked me the dumbest question of all.
SUNNY HOOSTIN: His question was?
BEHAR: He goes, I mean, he says, ‘so, justice — judge, do you believe that the First Amendment applies equally to conservatives as well as liberals?”
HOSTIN: He did indeed ask.
BEHAR: This is a ridiculous question. She had like a look on her face like, “man, are you stupid.”
HAINES: She’d gotten some really tough questions though, because the part that – this emphasis – which we talked about yesterday a little bit – on child pornography. When you actually look into it, even for one minute, you see she falls within a very normal spectrum of how she has – they’ve corrected their guidelines for what the law has not caught up in with technology.
But the look on her face – Because the worst thing – the most triggering crime for me is pedophilia and child pornography, just as a human. I didn’t need to be parent to be disgusted by that. This is the most visceral response you will see when you look at her with all of her respectability as they grill and question her. And she did what a Supreme Court justice – a future Supreme Court justice should do, she stayed there steady as ever and deliberate.
But I thought I would not have had the self-control to like “are you seriously asking me that” on the heels of describing her beautiful family, by the way, that was all there to support her.
(…)
HOSTIN: I find it sad that Republicans use this occasion to voice their grievances.
(…)
Eastern, 11:11:44
GOLDBERG : The other side requires the political theatre because they are eager to show what happened to the previous two.
BEHAR: They then compare her treatment to Clarence Thomas and Kavanaugh. She hasn’t been accused of any sexual impropriety.
HAINES: Her accusation is not true.
BEHAR That means they are on the edge of being criminals. That’s what I meant. I don’t know if this is true or false.
GOLDBERG – Used to be.
BEHAR: There is no equivalent. So they need to stop this now.
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