0 first of two long and intense days of questioning from members of the senate judiciary committee began this morning with democrats using their questions to allow jackson to issue a rebuttal to republican accusations that she has been soft on crime and republicans pressing her on her record as a judge and public defender and bringing up a whole host of conservative hobby horses. things like critical race theory. jackson has tried to stay above the fray in her responses. early on in the hearing, she told democratic senator, dick durbin, quote, i tried to stay in my lane. along with me are claire mccaskill and msnbc political analyst with danielle holly walker, dean and professor at howard school of law and joyce vance, law professor at university of alabama as well as an msnbc legal analyst. we have a few minutes before we go back to the hearing. claire, i want to start with you. just some of the fireworks that happened earlier today. just in the last hour or so. senator ted cruz arriv
all right, counsel, we have to pick a date to receive sentencing. for custody, we will be taking ms. potter in custody and holding without bail. i think we probably wanted a tier 4. we will be looking at januar. we can do 11:30 on either day. for sentencing? for sentencing. your honor, do you want a presentence report? yes, i m having a pfi report done. we are not available on the 13th. i believe we can do the 14th.
bail, and that will make it easier to do the presentence report. we will get people sending letters on her behalf, and i would ask for a sentencing sometime if you release her, i start a trial january 20th and it should be over by february 20th, or sometime in late february. my gosh, she s got a $100,000 bail. she s not going to commit another crime. she s not going anywhere. thank you. okay, mr. frank? thank you, your honor. we request that the defendant be taken into custody. the convictions here are for manslaughter in the first degree, manslaughter in the second degree, based on the death of daunte wright, a young man.
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again work don t know if the government s going to be able to prove it, but if they could, this is another proverbial nail in the coffin and quite significant evidence. does greenberg s scheduled sentencing of august 19th tell us anything about what we might expect before that? you know, it doesn t. and i think it s because some judges like to wait until the very end of a person s cooperation and then sentence the defendant just once of their cooperation is complete. that is, i think, if i were a judge, to preferred way to do it. but there are many judges who don t do that. they will just schedule the defendant s sentencing as soon as they get the presentence report, and then if the person cooperates further after sentencing they can resentence the person to a lower sentence. so the date of sentence here