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

I am looking for a Justice who understands that nobody is above the law and will not coddle criminals or put illegal aliens ahead of American citizens.

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

I am looking for a Justice who will protect the right to life of innocent infants, instead of caving to the abortion lobby.

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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

So, in other words, if you have a judge who consistently sentences, let's say, in an area, let's say child pornography, below what the Government is asking for, what the guidelines are asking for, you're saying that the message that that…

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

I am trying to understand your view on why it is that while the images, the number of images available on these things has exploded, that sentencing shouldn't track that.

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

the reason that there is human trafficking of any kind, including sex trafficking in children, is because there's a demand for it.

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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

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

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

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, in every case in which she`s had a child porn offender in front of her, she`s given that person a lenient sentence.

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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

Congress wanted the guidelines to be mandatory. Congress wrote the guidelines in this case. They wanted them to be mandatory.

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Jason Smith
@jasonsmith· Republican · MO· Mar 18, 2022

Last Friday marked the 1-year anniversary of the Biden bailout bill. This $2 trillion package has directly led to worker shortages, billions in waste, and the worst inflation in 40 years. The Biden bailout didn't rescue our economy. It…

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Eric Schmitt
@ericschmitt· Republican · MO· Mar 17, 2022

the Ukrainians know the terrain, and they`re fighting on the home turf, and they`re highly motivated to defend their homeland.

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Eric Schmitt
@ericschmitt· Republican · MO· Mar 17, 2022

the fierce resistance they met from the Ukrainians, as your report has documented right now. The other is that they overestimated their own capabilities going into Ukraine, serious logistic problems, shortages of fuel, food and spare parts.

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Emanuel Cleaver
@emanuelcleaver· Democratic · MO· Mar 16, 2022

I created a safe room in my house for my wife, because I am gone; nobody else is there.

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