{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-biggs-bidens-supreme-court-nominee-more-dangerous-you-think", "Congressman Biggs: Biden's Supreme Court Nominee is More Dangerous Than You Think", "2022-04-06", "2022", "2022-04", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "Andy Biggs", "B001302", "biggs.house.gov", "biggs", "https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "The recent Senate confirmation hearings for Biden\u2019s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court have revealed reasons that disqualify Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Americans need to let senators know why they should be voting \u201cNO\u201d when this nomination comes to the Senate floor.\n\nJudge Jackson is dangerous to children. Her record shows that she prefers to protect those who harm and exploit children over the children who are victims.\n\nThe case of U.S. v. Hawkins shows that Jackson isn\u2019t just soft on crime, but that she is soft on a particular type of crime: child pornography. An 18-year old man possessed and distributed hundreds of images of prepubescent boys being sexually assaulted. Federal guidelines indicated a prison sentence of up to 10 years, prosecutors recommended 2 years. Judge Jackson sentenced Hawkins to 3 months. After his release Hawkins reoffended.\n\nHer softness in sentencing these types of crimes was the norm for her because she didn\u2019t believe these individuals were pedophiles. Her position was not an aberration, it is reflected by her writings as far back as her law review days in law school some thirty years ago.\n\nIt is reflected in U.S. v. Cooper where she reduced a sentence for a person who downloaded and distributed more than 600 images of child porn including sadomasochistic images of infants and toddlers.\n\nAnd the litany of instances of Judge Jackson\u2019s protection of pedophiles and pornographers is pervasive. In fact, it was in every case that came before her involving child pornography.\n\nRepublicans have requested that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Durbin make documents concerning these cases available, but he refuses. One wonders what is in those files that Durbin is withholding.\n\nJudge Jackson is dangerous to the Constitution. She places Critical Race Theory on the same plane as the Constitution. She has supported the discredited 1619 Project. Her position indicates that she accepts the misguided notion that America is systemically and irredeemably racist. That kind of idea is promoted by those who believe that the Constitution is \u201cgarbage.\u201d How can she apply a Constitution that she believes is hopelessly flawed to the cases that come before her?\n\nJudge Jackson is a danger to women. One reason President Biden nominated Judge Jackson is because she is a \u201cblack woman.\u201d Senator Marsha Blackburn, (R-Tenn.) referred to a decision written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that stated, \u201cPhysical differences between men and women \u2026 are enduring.\u201d\n\nSenator Blackburn asked if Jackson could define \u201cwoman.\u201d Jackson\u2019s response that she couldn\u2019t define a woman because she isn\u2019t a biologist demonstrates a certain radical point of view. It isn\u2019t a view shared by most Americans, even those who aren\u2019t biologists.\n\nWhat\u2019s more troubling is that Senator Blackburn\u2019s entire line of questioning was predicated upon case precedent. Jackson\u2019s facile answer demonstrates that she cannot be taken seriously as one who can understand the Constitution and correctly apply it to cases before the Court.\n\nShe has the same difficulty defining when life begins. One wonders how she can ever decide on an issue without a biologist by her side.\n\nJudge Jackson ought not to be confirmed.\n\nHer judicial temperament and her radical view demonstrate that she will not uphold the Constitution, but will, rather, undermine the Constitution.\n\nJudge Jackson is perhaps the most radical nominee in the history of the country. Americans should let their Senators know that Judge Jackson should not be confirmed.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:19:30Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-biggs-bidens-supreme-court-nominee-more-dangerous-you-think"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.611052080988884, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}