'Cruz and Hawley are Republican presidential prospects for 2024, and the pedophilia theme panders to an increasingly large GOP constituency: QAnon followers.'
Specious claims of soft sentences in child pornography cases were an unlikely theme for Republicans to pursue in a confirmation hearing on a U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Fact checkers had thoroughly debunked the claims. Thoughtful conservatives tried and failed to head them off.in the conservative publication National Review on March 20, 2022.on Twitter that, as a district court judge, U.S.
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson had an"alarming pattern… of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker." Likewise before the hearing, the Washington Post dismantled Hawley's claims,None of that mattered to Hawley or his equally dogged ally of the moment, Sen. Ted Cruz . Over and over again, they returned to the subject. Media coverage of the meritless claims missed a key point: Both men knew better.
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