AP FACT CHECK: Republicans skew Jackson's record on crime
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March 23, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators characterized Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's judicial views as extremist and soft on crime, using her confirmation hearings to air a line of conservative grievances that relied at times on distortions of her record.
Over the first two days of hearings, Jackson was the subject of misleading rhetoric on critical race theory, her pandemic-era rulings and the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees she represented as a public defender.
A look at how some claims compare with the reality:
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SOUTH CAROLINA SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: "What's the recidivi...
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