Her record speaks for itself.
"The viewpoints expressed by Judge Jackson while on the U.S. Sentencing Commission were apparently put into action once Biden's nominee became a federal judge. According to Hawley's review, "In every single child porn case for which we can find records, Judge Jackson deviated from the federal sentencing guidelines in favor of child porn offenders."
Among the sentencing decisions Hawley reviewed, there were multiple examples of Judge Jackson handing down lesser punishments than what is called for in federal sentencing guidelines."
Yes. What's on record is what's on record. But the way the record is being presented by Republicans is questionable.
It is not fair to single out a judge and hold his/her sentencing record against federal guidelines as if that was the entire story. To be fair, additional information should be considered before the isolated facts are use to spin a political narrative. For example:
In a case where Jackson deviated from guidelines in favor of something lighter, was a deal made by the prosecutor beforehand?
In say 10 cases for the same crime with similar circumstances, what did other judges do in their sentencing? If we don't know that, we don't know if Jackson is more lenient or stringent than the others.
Comparing a sentencing record to the guidelines alone and considering nothing else is like comparing two expediter trucks based on their engine size alone. Yes, it's an important thing to consider, but there is much more to know if you want to understand the whole story.
I don't closely follow the breaking news when a Supreme Court nominee is being considered, but I do not recall a previous time when any nominee's sex-offender sentencing record was focused on like Jackson's was. It would be interesting to know if any other nominee was ever asked such a question. And it would be even more interesting to see a spreadsheet showing the sex-offender sentencing records of all current Supreme Court Justices.
There is no way to know without such a comparison, but for all we know, now, Jackson might be one of the more stringent Supreme Court justices when it comes to sentencing sex-offenders.