Cruz tried to link Jackson to certain books available to students at Georgetown Day School, a private school in Washington where Jackson serves on the board. Republican senators also sought to tie Jackson to 'critical race theory', which argues American history and institutions are infused with racial bias. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States tragic but defended her representation of detainees captured afterward, saying: 'We couldn't let the terrorists win by changing who we were fundamentally.' She later continued representing one of the detainees in private practice. Jackson worked from 2005 to 2007 as a court-appointed lawyer paid by the government to represent criminal defendants who could not afford counsel, including four Guantanamo detainees. In response, Jackson said she disagreed with Cotton's assessment. 'You twisted the law.so you could cut the sentence of a drug kingpin,' he said. Jackson explained that the man would not have received such a long prison term if he had been sentenced under the new law.Ĭotton countered that Congress did not make the law retroactive. Pedophilia has become a theme among far-right activists on social media and of the unfounded QAnon conspiracy theory, whose followers cast elite liberals and Democrats as a cabal of Satanist child-sexual predators.Ĭotton also blasted Jackson for reducing the sentence of a drug trafficker she had previously sent to prison for 20 years, based on a criminal justice reform law signed by former President Donald Trump in 2018. Jackson pushed back, saying 'those are not the sentiments I expressed.' Sentencing experts in a March 20 letter to the committee deemed Jackson's sentencing in such cases 'squarely within the mainstream of federal district court judges nationally.'Ĭruz also accused Jackson of 'a record of activism and advocacy as it concerns sexual predators' dating back to her time in law school in 1996 when she wrote a paper discussing sexual offender registries.

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