Durbin Disparages GOP Attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson

Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) “derided a new GOP attack on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, centered on her handling of sex offenders,” Politico reports.

Said Durbin: “I don’t believe in it being taken seriously. I’m troubled by it because it’s so outrageous. It really tests the committee as to whether we’re going to be respectful in the way we treat this nominee.”

“Durbin’s response — plus a heated reply from the White House — comes after Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, questioned Jackson’s record on the U.S. Sentencing Commission and as a district court judge in a series of tweets Wednesday, going so far as to say ‘her record endangers children.'”