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Ahead of Monday’s start to the Supreme Court nomination hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Friday’s COVID-stricken edition of ABC’s The View featured three co-hosts avoiding the apparent evidence of Jackson going easy on sex offenders and child porn peddlers. Instead, they came to her defense by arguing that she’ll “very literally” “outshine each and every one” of the conservative justices nominated by former President Trump.
“What's crazy is the Republicans, like Josh Hawley [R-MO] are already trying to derail her path to the bench, claiming that there's past cases that show she let sex offenders off too easy and he takes issue with the fact she defended Guantanamo detainees, which is the law,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg scoffed.
Goldberg, who recently claimed the Holocaust “wasn’t about race,” told Hawley to pick up a book and get educated about public defenders. “It is literally the law! If you are detained, we must provide you with a lawyer to make sure you're not being railroaded! That's the law! All you got to do is look it up,” she sneered.
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