Manu Raju

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“There are always a few — and you know who they are — who are going to raise issues in a way that I think cross the line. That’s their business,” Durbin says of his colleagues on the committee — PolitiTweet.org

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“Can you provide a definition for the word, woman?” Blackburn asks. Jackson: “Can I provide a definition? No, I can’t.” Blackburn: “You can’t?” Jackson: “Not in this context - I’m not a biologist. … In my work as a judge what I do is I address disputes.” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ddale8: Re Blackburn’s questions a moment ago: Jackson wasn’t generally describing pro-life women as a “hostile, noisy crowd.” She was… — PolitiTweet.org

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“What personal hidden agendas do you harbor or do you think other judges harbor?” Blackburn asks Jackson about comments she made before she become a lawyer. Jackson says: “It is not a view that I hold.” — PolitiTweet.org

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“When does life begin, in your opinion” Kennedy asks. Jackson: “I don’t know. … I have a religious view that I set aside when I’m ruling on cases.” — PolitiTweet.org

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“I think it's a fair line of questioning if, in fact through her tenure on the Sentencing Commission or as a judge previously there were issues with that,” Murkowski said. — PolitiTweet.org

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Murkowski, who was one of three GOP senators who voted to confirm Jackson to DC Circuit, said she hasn’t been watching the hearing but will watch it closely tonight and the days ahead. She did tell us she had no issues with questioning her sentencing of child porn defendants — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Hawley says he wasn’t trying to impugn Jackson’s integrity by his line of questioning. “I'm not questioning her integrity or her as a person at all but I am questioning her judgment,” he said, pointing to her sentencing in a child pornography case of just three months — PolitiTweet.org

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Graham was one of three Rs who voted for her for DC Circuit. Now Graham predicted Jackson will get very minimal support from Republicans when she is voted on in the full Senate:  “Probably one or two at most.” — PolitiTweet.org

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In addition, he said he would have still voted for her for that job even if he knew her role in the Gitmo issue.   “Because the DC Circuit can’t change Boumediene (vs Bush) and all the other cases,” he told @tedbarrettcnn . — PolitiTweet.org

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“She seemed qualified for the job she was chosen for and I’ve had pretty obvious policy of not attending hearings and voting for people,” Graham says of not going to her DC Circuit hearing. “I didn’t just pick her out.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Lindsey Graham says he did not raise his concerns about Jackson’s defense of Gitmo detainees last year when she had a hearing to be on the DC Circuit “because I didn’t feel the need to” attend the hearing. Says the detainees case wouldn’t have been decided by DC Circuit anyways. — PolitiTweet.org

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Cotton asking Jackson questions about whether sentences are too weak on rape, child porn, drug trafficking, murder. Cotton says these aren’t difficult questions. “It’s not that they’re not difficult questions — they’re not questions for me,” she says, adding it’s up to Congress — PolitiTweet.org

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Hawley to Jackson: “I am questioning your discretion and your judgment.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Tense exchange between Hawley and Jackson over sentencing in child porn cases. Jackson says her body of work shows her sentencing decisions are consistent with federal judges. Hawley reading transcripts of her comments in past cases. “Is he a victim?” Hawley says of a defendant https://t.co/cWfEeX4pOE — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jamiedupree: Sen. Mike Braun R-IN told home-state reporters today that the U.S. Supreme Court should again allow individual states to d… — PolitiTweet.org

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Blumenthal called it a “supreme distraction” — PolitiTweet.org

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Ds criticize Cruz for using books from Georgetown Day School to question her on CRT. “I had a little trouble when you start getting into... family decisions and to suggest that perhaps something is questionable in her role as a mother, as a parent, that troubles me,” Durbin said — PolitiTweet.org

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Nine more senators have to question Jackson today — at 30 minutes apiece — with a dinner break in between. Guess is today’s hearing will wrap sometime in the 9pET hour. Then all 22 senators each have 20-minute rounds of questioning tomorrow, starting at 9a — PolitiTweet.org

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Cruz, who questions before Hawley, goes after Jackson over her sentencing in child pornography cases. Jackson pushes back: “Your chart does not include all of the factors” Congress has told judges to consider in cases. “I take these cases very seriously as a mother” and a judge. — PolitiTweet.org

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Cruz going through books he says are taught or available at Georgetown Day School (where Judge Jackson sits as a board member) to press her on CRT. Asks her if she’s OK with that. She says board members don’t have any role in the curriculum - and CRT does not come up as a judge https://t.co/yaYei4ivT9 — PolitiTweet.org

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“It is not something I studied, it has not come up in my work,” Judge Jackson says to Ted Cruz about the 1619 project, asking about her past remarks that the work is “provocative.” Cruz asks her about CRT. “It doesn’t come up in my work as a judge,” she said https://t.co/8v3In7ahoo — PolitiTweet.org

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McConnell does not want to become the issue in #mosen as Greitens is trying to make him one — PolitiTweet.org

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Romney has said he’s open to supporting Jackson. But when I asked him why he opposed Jackson to the DC Circuit, he said: “We took a review of some of the cases that she decided and felt that they suggested she was not in the mainstream of judicial thought” https://t.co/GWzIJGyRQU — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @steve_vladeck: On Cornyn's claim that Judge Jackson called President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld "war criminals": While a public defend… — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Greitens, #mosen candidate, had accused his ex-wife of consulting with political operatives in DC before filing her affidavit alleging domestic abuse. She responds here by saying she only spoke with her lawyer before filing affidavit and says she will provide docs if needed — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NatashaBertrand: Russia has begun firing on the city of Mariupol from the Sea of Azov, according to a senior US defense official, using… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jeffzeleny: .@PressSec Jen Psaki says she has tested positive for Covid and won't be going with President Biden to Europe tomorrow. "I… — PolitiTweet.org

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Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden calls for quick passage of bill to revoke Russia’s and Belarus’  trade status, pushing back on calls by Republicans to add an oil import embargo to the legislation. “Why make it complicated? “Let's do it this week,” he told me — PolitiTweet.org

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“She’s an impressive person,” Ben Sasse, Republican on the Senate Judiciary, told me of Judge Jackson’s performance so far — PolitiTweet.org