Amid the questioning of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dubious record of light sentencing for child porn offenders, CNN brought on an ‘expert’ in Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin who declared that he thinks the laws are too harsh.
Toobin, who was infamously temporarily suspended for masturbating on a Zoom call, appeared on the network Tuesday to discuss the matter, and concluded that the line of questioning on pedophilia by Republicans is part of an appeal to right wing conspiracy theorists.
First some context, courtesy of GOP Rep Josh Hawley:
Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker. She’s been advocating for it since law school. This goes beyond “soft on crime.” I’m concerned that this a record that endangers our children
In United States v. Stewart, the criminal possessed thousands of images of child porn and also hoped to travel across state lines to abuse a 9-year-old girl. The Guidelines called for a sentence of 97-121 months. Judge Jackson sentenced the criminal to just 57 months.
Josh @HawleyMO: "[Y]ou go on to say, 'sex offenders are truly shunned in our society.' I'm just trying to figure out, judge, is he the victim here? Or the victims are the victims? You're saying that you're apologizing to him. You're…sorry for the anguished this has caused him" pic.twitter.com/I1cNREs65U
“I just have one point about these kiddie porn cases,” CNN’s Toobin stated following Jackson’s comments, noting “This came up, I remember, when I was an assistant U.S. Attorney back in the 90’s when those sentencing guidelines were written for those cases, this was a time when the people who committed these crimes would order individual photos and get them usually through email and they would be sentenced based on the number of photos they possessed.”
He continued, “Federal judges have been struggling with the issue of how do you create a fair system that was designed pre-internet, yet you have to sentence people post-internet.”
Toobin further stated “Judges across the country, including Republican-appointed judges, have been saying ‘look, we can’t apply the rules that were designed pre-internet for an internet society and many judges have been giving somewhat less sentences as a result.”
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You can't make this up.
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin is defending the White House/Media narrative on sentencing guidelines for what he calls "kiddie porn cases."
"People who committed these crimes would order individual photos and get them…through email…this was all pre-internet." pic.twitter.com/iWMFYOyZ1x
In a further appearance, Toobin suggested that kiddie porn and rampant pedophilia is some sort of batshit QAnon conspiracy theory.
“This was really extraordinary. You have a judge here who has been on the bench for ten years almost. And we had the entire half-hour of Senator Hawley’s question about a single case where he got to recite the grisly details of, and say pedophilia over and over again,” Toobin complained after Wolf Blizter bemoaned “Senator Josh Hawley trying to paint Judge Jackson as somehow sympathetic to child porn offenders.”
Toobin continued, “This is about appealing to the QAnon audience, this cult that is a big presence in Republican Party politics now, that is – where Senator Hawley is trying to ingratiate himself with that group and run for president with their support.”
CNN’s resident wanker added “This has very little to do with Judge Jackson who, as has come out throughout the hearing today, is one of many judges who have found the sentencing guidelines in these child porn possession cases excessive.”
Senior political correspondent Abby Philip also agreed with Toobin that Hawley is engaging in a “dog whistle to the kind of QAnon-right.”
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Jackson was further grilled on the matter Tuesday by Senator Ted Cruz, who asked “Do you believe the voice of the children is heard when 100 percent of the time you’re sentencing those in possession of child pornography to far below what prosecutors [were] asking for?”
Poll: RFK Jr. Independent Bid Would Help Donald Trump, Hurt Joe Biden
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3 October, 2023
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. running as an independent 2024 presidential candidate would help former President Donald Trump and hurt President Joe Biden in the general election, a recent Echelon Insights survey found.
A preview of the survey shows Trump leading Biden in a head-to-head presidential matchup nationally, 46 percent to 43 percent — a three-point lead. In that scenario, 11 percent remain unsure for whom they would vote.
However, with Kennedy running as an independent candidate, Trump’s lead over Biden expands by one point, growing to four points — 40 percent to Biden’s 36 percent. Kennedy garners 14 percent support. In that scenario, ten percent remain unsure.
NEW FINDINGS: In our latest poll, we found that an Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would INCREASE Donald Trump's margin over Joe Biden by one point(!)
Later today, we'll be sharing our September Omnibus poll so you can get all the details! pic.twitter.com/f5qheJSOUj
Another look at the survey’s cross tabs shows Kennedy ultimately taking 17 percent of Democrat-leaning voters while taking 11 percent among Republican-leaning voters. In other words, Democrats are more negatively affected by a Kennedy independent run than Republicans are.
Video: Trump Calls For Democrat Who Pulled Fire Alarm To Be Prosecuted
“He’s a Democrat radical left lunatic, and he should be prosecuted the same exact way as the J6 people were prosecuted.”
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22 hours ago
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2 October, 2023
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President Trump has called for New York Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman, the Democrat who pulled the fire alarm in the Cannon Congressional Office Building in order to shut down Congress during a last ditch spending vote Saturday, to be prosecuted in the same fashion as January 6th prisoners.
Speaking after a rally, Trump stated “This is the crap, and then they’ll let him out because he’s a Democrat radical left lunatic, and he should be prosecuted the same exact way as the J6 people were prosecuted.”
Trump continued, “many of them have been treated more unfairly than anybody in the history of our country. And I don’t know if I should be saying that because I don’t know what these people behind me say, but I’ll bet they agree with me. There’s never been anybody treated so unfairly, just about.”
“What they’ve done to the J6ers is terrible, and Bowman went, and he pulled an alarm, and you could add riots, you could add everything else, and he did it during a vote! And he should be treated the same exact way,” Trump further urged.
“We’ll see what happens because a lot of people are saying, ‘What are you going to do about J6?'” Trump continued, adding “I don’t think they’re going to be disappointed. I can tell you that.”
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Trump also made the same call in a Truth Social post, asserting that Bowman’s “egregious act is covered on tape, a horrible display of nerve and criminality.”
Video: Obama Won’t Answer When Asked If His Wife Will Run For President
Will Michelle be parachuted in by DNC?
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2 October, 2023
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Barack Obama provided no comment when asked if his wife is planning to run for the Democratic Party nomination.
Obama was spotted emerging from a restaurant in Beverly Hills Saturday night, while Michelle Obama was hanging out with Tom Hanks on Steven Spielberg’s yacht in Portofino.
The former President had nothing to say when asked for comment:
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Barack Obama was asked “Is Michelle running for president?”