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Senate Judiciary Republicans are circulating a document that takes aim at the Supreme Court nominee’s handling of sex-related offenses, days before her confirmation hearings begin.
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is pictured on her way to a meeting at the Capitol on March 16, 2022, in Washington. | Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo
By Marianne LeVine
03/17/2022 11:52 AM EDT
Updated: 03/17/2022 07:40 PM EDT
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Senate Republicans are offering clear indicators that they plan to make Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s handling of sex-related offenses a key line of questioning in her confirmation hearings next week.
The subject was first raised publicly by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) Wednesday evening and within hours POLITICO obtained a copy of a background document Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were circulating on the topic. The suggestion that Jackson was sympathetic to sex offenders received immediate pushback from Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin and the Biden White House on Thursday, who derided the attacks as “outrageous” and lacking context.