If a criminal figures out a more effective way to break into people’s homes to steal more, should he receive a lighter sentence per dollar of what he steals? Biden’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, certainly thinks so. But the legal system doesn’t normally work that way. If a rapist rapes two women, he gets two sentences - one for each crime. Each crime a criminal gets convicted for gets a separate penalty. That has traditionally been true for child pornography, where more pictures of children mean more crimes have been committed.
In testimony before the
Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Jackson discussed concerns raised
primarily by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) that she was lenient on people who had
child pornography. Hawley pointed out that as a judge, there were seven cases
where she gave sentences below what was recommended by the federal sentencing
guidelines. As a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, she also pushed to
lower the penalties for child pornography. [more...]
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