“Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson “gave child porn offenders sentences below the guidelines and below what the prosecutors were requesting,” showing she is “soft on child pornography offenders.”
What PolitiFact found
Judge Jackson is a lot like other federal judges. Nationally, more than two-thirds of sentences in these cases are below federal guidelines. Prosecutors and judges often ignore the guidelines.
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In short
Josh Hawley (Republican senator from Missouri) made this claim around 21 March 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 March 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Josh Hawley has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- foxnews.comhttps://www.foxnews.com/opinion/supreme-court-nominee-judge-jacksons-crime-sentences-sen-…
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