and it s a long arc, judge jackson. but i am so proud of your answers. and i appreciate and yield back. senator, leahy. let s take a break for about 15 minutes. thank you. thank you very much, judge. two hours and 17 minutes in. we have been listening to the hearing of judge ketanji j. the hearing will resume in about 15 minutes. we ll go back. but let s go to darren haeck. george spans. and professor at the university of alabama law school. and ck hoffman. joyce. i mean, after yesterday, we saw that one of the key themes was frequent accusations that judge jackson was somehow soft on
pain. are you aware of that? i am not aware of that. that may come before you so keep in mind. that s what i ask you to do. you said a bit ago, that you apply the law and facts and apply them as you see them. that is right shartd? that is correct. and you look at them and try to apply them. is that correct? that is correct, senator. have you heard of the case of make the road versus mceileen? make the road in new york? yes. make the road. who are they? make the road new york is a nonprofit that represents various individuals in the sort of immigration law. they re the nonprofit
republicans and democrats. because they should be your legal thoughts and supreme court. so i d like to give you an opportunity to speak directly to the american people. including our little state of vermont. is there anything you want to convey to them about what kind of supreme court justice you would be if and when you re confirmed? it s all yours, your honor. thank you, senator. well, first, let me just address my comments to you in your office. which is something that i ve said in speeches because it speaks to who i am and what i value. my parents grew up in florida, under lawful segregation. and what that means is when
your making. so it s really not about you. but representative green is a fine man, came up and said he thought the exchange between you and senator leahy at the end about the arc of time, and how far we ve come as a nation, was powerful. i will agree. and i guess here s my point i m trying to make to the american people and my democratic colleagues. i wish you had that same attitude, when an african american conservative is appointed to high office in the judiciary. so what happened with janice rogers brown? in 2003, she was an african american nominee for the d.c. district court, 54 years old. a little bit older than you. but pretty close. she was a daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers, a childhood and alabama under jim crow. she was a single mother. a member of the california short.
opportunity to respond to you, senator. finally. on the internet with one click you can receive, you can distributed tens of thousands. you can be doing this for 15 minutes and all of a sudden you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years in prison good. good. absolutely good. i hope you are. good. allow her to finish, please. i hope you go to jail for 50 years. all of that happened after graham s time was up and made senator leahy, who has seen such 20 confirmation hearings leave the room and say this to reporters. he wouldn t let her answer and kept interrupting her, and i could not help but think is this aimed for this hearing or a political campaign. i am just distressed to see this kind of a complete breakdown