Jackson faced down a barrage of Republican questioning over two days about her sentencing of criminal defendants, her bid to join the Supreme Court veering from lofty constitutional questions to attacks on her motivations on the bench.
On Wednesday, her final day of Senate questioning, Jackson declared she would rule"without any agendas" as the high court's first Black female justice and rejected Republican efforts to paint her as soft on crime in her decade on the federal bench. Though her approval seems all but sure - Democrats are aiming for a vote before Easter - Republicans kept trying to chip away at her record.
"You can bang it as long as you want," Cruz snapped, shouting that he just wanted Jackson to answer his question.The focus on sentencing was part of a larger effort by the committee's Republicans - several are potential presidential candidates - to characterize Jackson's record, and her judicial philosophy, as too empathetic and soft on criminals who commit the worst offenses. It was also reflective of an emerging emphasis on crime in GOP midterm election campaigns.
Jackson, backed by committee Democrats, said the Republicans were mischaracterizing her decisions. Asked if her rulings were endangering children, she told the committee on Tuesday,"Nothing could be further from the truth."
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