Child Porn? Biden Nominee Says No Big Deal

By CHRISTOPHER MANION

“I’ll appoint the first Black woman to the Court. It’s required that they have representation now — it’s long overdue,” Joe Biden announced during the presidential debates in March 2020.
Even before Biden took office, the pro-abortion Left began hounding former Ted Kennedy staff director and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. “Retire,” they shouted. “Make way for a younger pro-abortion Biden appointee!”
Breyer announced his retirement in January, and in Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden’s nominee to replace him, they have found their hero. Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey is “settled law,” she told the Senate Committee on the Judiciary during her confirmation hearings this week. She cited similar observations by Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett, although they both consider Roe to be bad law and might well overturn it in a major opinion expected this June.
The committee questioning also highlighted Jackson’s record as a U.S. District Judge in the District of Columbia. Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) used a chart detailing her sentencing decisions to criticize Jackson’s leniency with regard to her sentencing in child pornography cases. The record demonstrated how her sentencing of child pornographers had consistently been more lenient than federal sentencing guidelines, Cruz argued.
When Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) mentioned the especially light sentence she had imposed on one such occasion, he asked Jackson, “Do you regret it?”
“What I regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a Justice on the Supreme Court, we have spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences.”
Oh dear. Children abused and ruined for life. How boring.
I’ve staffed hundreds of Senate confirmation hearings. Rarely have I seen such brazen indifference from a nominee regarding such a vital issue.
Uh-oh, was Jackson in trouble? Of course not. She’s a shoo-in.
But the committee’s always irrepressible Cory Booker (D., N.J.) wanted another “Spartacus Moment” like the one he declared during the Kavanaugh hearings four years ago. He’d already canonized Jackson with a litany of love that had brought her to tears, but he couldn’t shut up.
Booker returned to Jackson’s “small subset,” apparently convinced that this would help her. He objected to the Republicans’ questions regarding Jackson’s permissive stance on child pornography on the grounds that their focus on her lenient sentences might intimidate other judges in their decisions regarding child pornographers.
How terrifying.
And then, perhaps in a moment coached by Kamala Harris, another Biden Affirmative Action appointee, came this exchange:
Sen. Blackburn: “Can you provide a definition of the word ‘woman’?”
Judge Jackson: “No, I can’t.”
Sen. Blackburn: “You can’t?”
Judge Jackson: “I’m not a biologist.”
A suggested follow-up comes to mind:
Sen. Blackburn: “In June 2020, candidate Joe Biden promised that he would appoint the first black woman to the Court. Are you a woman?”
Judge Jackson: “Yes.”
Sen. Blackburn: “How do you know?”
Let’s face it. The fix is in, and the pro-abortion media have laid down the law. Booker’s fear of “intimidation” was a fabrication, but the media’s intimidation machine maxed out in force.
Senate Republicans have employed “appeals to racism,” The New York Times shouted. “The GOP uses Jackson hearing to inflame tensions over race, crime,” said ABC News. And Yahoo News called the hearings a “GOP Racist Clown Show.”
Vote against Jackson and you’re a racist.
America’s Catholic hierarchy has spent considerable effort in combatting “racism” in recent years. Yet not one bishop has criticized Biden’s 2020 promise to exclude Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Inuits from consideration for the Supreme Court post.
Well, nobody’s perfect. Thank goodness only males can be bishops!
Well, so far anyway.
Just wait until the faithful have to face Justice Jackson’s decisions on “equity and inclusion” in hiring, on the LGBT agenda, on abortion and contraceptives, as well as on the entire range of life issues that the bishops claim are “pre-eminent” while they so easily and conveniently ignore them.
So let us pray that our shepherds will publicly condemn Judge Jackson’s support of abortion and her leniency in sentencing child-porn criminals. These murderous thugs traffic in children, then abuse, sell, exploit, and destroy them in creating the child pornography that U.S. law was written to punish severely.
Why not ask your bishop to do so? If he does, please let us know.

Leftovers

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s novel, was published ninety years ago. It mingled Huxley’s experience of Europe’s carnal decadence in the 1920s with his brilliant insight into the totalitarian mentality that was growing throughout the world.
Yet I think that Mustapha Mond, Huxley’s “World Controller” who kept everybody happy with Soma and sex, would marvel at the success of today’s Big Tech billionaires, the advance of the “New World Order,” the advocates of the “Great Reset,” as well as the wars and rumors of wars that Mond had so magically brought under control.
There are many pretenders to Mustapha Mond’s throne these days. And I can’t help but ponder the experiment that he conducted on the island of Cyprus. Mond’s deliberately designed hierarchy of groups that varied in intelligence from the brilliant Alphas and pretty smart Betas to to the deliberately intellectually deprived Deltas and Epsilons was central to Brave New World’s survival. This hierarchy, Mond insisted, was absolutely necessary to the maintenance of an orderly society.
Nonetheless, at one point the brilliant Alphas insisted on having their own colony, without having to take care of all of their inferiors, so Mustapha Mond cleared Cyprus of all its inhabitants and sent 22,000 Alphas off to run the place.
They completely wrecked it in six years. Only three thousand Alphas survived, and they begged Mond to take it over and save them.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright died this past Wednesday. Her death has rekindled memories of her infamous appearance on 60 Minutes on May 12, 1996, when she was Bill Clinton’s ambassador to the United Nations. Leslie Stahl raised the issue of the sanctions that the United States and other countries had imposed on Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War.
“We have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima,” Stahl said. “And, you know, is the price worth it?”
“I think that is a very hard choice,” Albright answered, “but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”
Her words might be of interest to advocates of today’s sanctions imposed by the international community on Russia.
And nineteen years ago today, on the Feast of the Annunciation, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien of the U.S. Military Ordinariate wrote to all U.S. military chaplains a letter regarding the participation in George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq that had begun six days before:
“Given the complexity of factors involved, many of which understandably remain confidential, it is altogether appropriate for members of our armed forces to presume the integrity of our leadership and its judgments and therefore to carry out their military duties in good conscience,” he wrote.
And this weekend marks the annual collection for Catholic Relief Services. Contributions will aid the world’s “poorest of the poor,” including over a thousand U.S. immigration lawyers as well as the USCCB’s team of lobbyists who advocate the social justice agenda of the Biden administration on Capitol Hill.
Yes, CRS receives well over half of its billion-dollar budget from the taxpayer, but federal law prohibits the use of that funding to hire lawyers and lobbyists.
When in doubt as to how to give alms during Lent — as well as the rest of the year — remember those worthy groups that receive no government funding. They depend completely on your voluntary donations. They do not grovel for the taxpayer funds that come from the government trough.