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Succinct Sen. Shelby on how Trump revoking Brooks’s endorsement affects the Race: “his campaign was tanking anyway” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @seungminkim: >@SenatorWarnock is here in the Jackson confirmation hearing, as @ossoff is teed up to resume questioning in a few minutes… — PolitiTweet.org

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Mo Brooks Mo Problems — PolitiTweet.org

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Dems three of their 2020 contenders emerge from Judiciary. But for Dems courts are “just another issue,” said Sen. Whitehouse. For Rs it's different “The audience is not so much in the room, and not even the nominee. But [instead] TV sound bites and right-wing network echoes" — PolitiTweet.org

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Cruz, Hawley, Cotton and Blackburn are all grilling Supreme Court nominee KBJ this week. And how many of them will run for POTUS? “I’d set the line at two," guesses Sen. Tillis. “And bet the over.” https://t.co/O2DIq9cH0L — PolitiTweet.org

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KBJ just won't engage on Cotton's broad line of questioning, she says for the most part it's a policy question "As a judge, we are asked in the context of a single prosecution regarding a particular person who has committed a horrible crime" — PolitiTweet.org

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"If I had that discretion, I'd probably throw the book at child pornographers. But maybe that's just me," Cotton says — PolitiTweet.org

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Cotton is asking whether rapists and murderers should spend more time in prison and whether law enforcement should catch more criminals KBJ: "People should be held accountable for their crime" — PolitiTweet.org

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Cotton: "Judge, I'd like to talk about crime" — PolitiTweet.org

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Mike Lee: "Is it fair to characterize the questions by Sen. Hawley as an attack?" — PolitiTweet.org

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Cruz and Kennedy are annoyed that Republicans just received sentencing info about KBJ that they hadn't seen before "I'm very upset, I join Ted Cruz," Booker deadpans. Says he just got it too. — PolitiTweet.org

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SCOTUS Switch-up: Tillis says he's going to go with Ossoff tomorrow, Blackburn now going tonight — PolitiTweet.org

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That was a pretty tense 30-35 minutes. And I'm watching on my computer from the gallery — PolitiTweet.org

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Durbin says that a judge that Hawley supported, Sarah Pitlyk, also sentences child porn offenders below federal guidelines Hawley says that she did sentence to what federal prosecutors suggested Durbin says he looks forward to Hawley's child porn sentencing legislation — PolitiTweet.org

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Hawley responds: “I am questioning your discretion nd judgement. I’m not questioning you as a person” "To take a guy who’s 18 years old, who has what the government says is a large collection of pre-pubescent pornography … and you say to him, what, it was just a collection?” — PolitiTweet.org

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KBJ: "Judges are doing the work of assessing in each case, a number of factors that are set forward by Congress. All against the backdrop of heinous criminal behavior. But the guidelines are no longer mandatory, Congress has not corrected the Supreme Court’s determination" — PolitiTweet.org

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@KDbyProxy @igorbobic no we agree, it would have gone over if those two senators had to go tonight — PolitiTweet.org

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Hawley says of his three children “I live in fear that they will be exposed to, let alone exploited, to this kind of material” — PolitiTweet.org

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"I think these cases very seriously. That these cases include the notion, by many defendants .. that they are not actually focused on what's happening to the children," KBJ says. "It's not just about how much time someone spends in prison" — PolitiTweet.org

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KBJ: "It is heinous, it is egregious. What a judge has to do is determine how to sentence defendants proportionally" to congressional guidelines and evidence "All of the offenses are horrible. All of the offenses are egregious. But the guidelines are being departed from" by govt — PolitiTweet.org

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Hawley presses KBJ on a child prn case where guidelines called for 10 years, prosecutor wanted two years and “you gave him three months” “I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it” — PolitiTweet.org

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WH spokesman Bates after Psaki positive test: “Judge Jackson is not a close contact with Jen Psaki, nor are any of the administration staffers who are working with her on the Hill. Judge Jackson is also fully vaccinated and boosted.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Things running long, so Durbin says Ossoff and Blackburn have to do their first round of questioning tomorrow. Womp, womp — PolitiTweet.org

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@DrewSav Did Gary Black hack your account — PolitiTweet.org

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Unless people start yielding (Dems more likely to give time back) this hearing may go until around 10 p.m. — PolitiTweet.org

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One reason why Hawley came out of the gate with criticizing KBJ's sentencing record last week is that Cruz is ahead of him in seniority -- and in order of questioning in today's hearing — PolitiTweet.org

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Cruz asked KBJ about the "Antiracist Baby" book being taught at Georgetown Day School "Do you agree with this book being taught to kids that babies are racist?" KBJ: "Senator, I do not believe that any child should be made to feel as though they are racist" — PolitiTweet.org

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Have to say, I did not know this history of Georgetown Day School — PolitiTweet.org

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Questioning KBJ, Cruz going in on the 1619 project — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AnthonyAdragna: McConnell won’t say directly that Greitens should drop out in Missouri. Up to people of that state to decide. — PolitiTweet.org