Hawley's Twitter thread about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's record ignites angry firestorm

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., ignited a firestorm of reaction with a March 16 Twitter thread in which he raised questions about President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.Last week, Hawley highlighted Jackson’s record as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission and argued in a thread spanning 18 tweets that she has a history of “letting child porn offenders off the hook.”Hawley received fierce backlash from the Biden administration and mainstream media outlets in response to his Twitter thread.White House press secretary Jen Psaki dismissed Hawley’s objections, saying last week, “I’m not sure that someone who refused to tell people whether or not he would vote for Roy Moore is an effective and credible messenger on this.”Echoing Psaki, White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said: “This is toxic and weakly-presented misinformation that relies on taking cherry-picked elements of her record out of context — and it buckles under the lightest scrutiny.”White House chief of staff Ronald Klain described Hawley’s concerns as “false attacks” and “slop,” linking to a fact-check from the Washington Post that gave the senator “three Pinocchios.”Elie Mystal, who serves as justice correspondent for “The Nation,” went so far…
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