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Roy Blunt
@royblunt· Republican · MO· Mar 23, 2022

Well, we are. As to what you were talking about with getting people into the healthcare system instead of the criminal justice system, it is, obviously, one of the goals we should have. Missouri's really got started in January 2017, and in…

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Mar 22, 2022

Every time I thought the Republicans had reached a new level of hypocrisy, whoops, up it came again.

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Mar 22, 2022

This woman that was in front of the judiciary committee was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant on the law, in her demeanor, this was a woman wearing a velvet glove with a steel spine.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 22, 2022

To take a guy who’s 18 years old, who has what the government says is an extremely large collection of prepubescent pornography, and then you give him three months when frankly, a liberal prosecutor is asking for two full years.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 22, 2022

Judge, you gave him three months. My question is, do you regret it or not?

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Claire McCaskill
@clairemccaskill· Democratic · MO· Mar 22, 2022

They may win the race for the Trump faction, but they are not going to win a race of most Americans, who see what they are doing as terribly off-topic, distortion, distraction, from the incredible qualifications of this woman.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 21, 2022

Judge, he was 18. These kids are eight. I don't see in what sense they are peers.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 21, 2022

Judge, with all due respect, I will be direct with you. I am questioning your judgment. That’s what I’m doing. I’m questioning not your excellence as a judge, but you had discretion.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 21, 2022

It really bothers me, when in every case child porn case you've had, we've had discretion, you've sent below the guidelines and below the government's recommendation.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 21, 2022

You had discretion in these cases. And you used your discretion to choose the sentences that you did.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 20, 2022

So if you made a recommendation to a judge and that judge went 90 percent or more below your recommendation that you thought was necessary to keep the public safe, would you be worried about the effect that that might have in terms of…

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 20, 2022

I will not support anyone who seeks to rewrite the Constitution from the Bench, rather than through our constitutional amendment process.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 20, 2022

does child pornography help drive the demand for human trafficking and sex trafficking of children?

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 20, 2022

I want to be candid with you today so you know exactly what it is I want to talk about and so you know exactly where my head is at.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 20, 2022

I think that somebody--the more images that are there, the more punishment there should be.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 20, 2022

A few things that I`m concerned about, aspects of your record that trouble me, seven cases that represent, as near as we can tell, all of Judge Jackson`s case is dealing with child pornography from her time on the district court.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 20, 2022

Judge Jackson handed down a lenient sentence that was below what the federal guidelines recommended.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Mar 20, 2022

I am looking for a Justice who will uphold the Constitution, not use it to invent new so-called rights.

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