representing detainees at guatemala bay and provided them with legal representation. the right to counsel is a fundamental part of our constitutional sentencing system even for the most unpopular defendants. i want to thank senator graham for offering his perspective yesterday. he said and i quote, the fact that you are representing gitmo detainees is not a problem with me, senator graham said. everyone deserves a lawyer, you are doing the country a great service when you defend the most unpopular people. judge roberts said during his confirmation hearing it is a tradition of the american bar and it goes back before the founding of the country that lawyers are not identified by positions of their klients. the most famous example was john adams, who represented the british soldiers charged in the boston massacre. this sentiment is shared by
jackson and senator graham today. senator graham an interesting case here. he voted to confirm her to her current role on the d.c. circuit court of appeals last summer. here is a bit of exchange in the second round of questioning. with one click, you can receive you can distribute 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. i understand. absolutely, good. i hope you are. good. allow her to finish, please. i hope you go to jail for 50 years if you re on the internet trolling for images of children in sexual exploitation. you don t think that s a bad thing. i think that s a horrible thing. that s not what the witness said. she should be allowed to answer this question once and all. all i m trying to explain is our sentencing system, the system that congress has
we are going to treat a person who has distributed a thousand allowed oars, because that shows that this person is really engaged and is really horrible behavior. incomes the internet. on the internet with one click you can receive, you can distribute tens of thousands. you can be doing this for 15 minutes. all of a sudden you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years in prison good, absolutely good. allow her to finish, please. i hope you go out to jail for 50 years if you re on the internet trolling for images of children and sexual exploitation. you don t think it s a bad thing? i think that s a horrible thing. she should be allowed to answer this question once and for all. senator all i m trying to explain is that our sentencing
0 misleading the public but taking the court out of context. she repeated testimony from someone else and he says it is her quote. hawley praised her experience and said he looks forward to questioning her today. also important to note many questions about her time as a public defender and for her to get on the bench this time where she was now at the court of appeals three republicans, murcowski, collins and graham all voted in favor. we ll see what they do this time. trace: david spunt live at the justice department. dana: two fox news contributors. andy mccarthy and constitutional law attorney jonathan turley. we have gone through this a few times together. one of the things i was thinking about is how different some of these hearings are when it is a democratic nominee versus a republican nominee. you posted a column in usa today saying ketanji brown jackson is getting the respect amy coney barrett was denied. the republicans say they will keep it civil. the democrats will alre
complete ab brigation. i will throw that to you. you are completely right and it does show the inequities in our sentencing system. i mean just using the two of them, the amount of money that was hidden, deliberately by manafort the foreign accounts set up, the lies that he told, all of that is much larger than what anything michael cohen did. both are wrong. both are guilty. but the dimensions are much more for manafort and saying he got 47 months is not enough more to show a justice. if you compare it to the watergate defendants and other white collar criminals or even worse, when you compare it to what poor defendants get for lesser crimes, you see the inequities in our system and the sentencing guidelines were put in place so people across the nation for similar crimes would be similarly sentenced. yeah. and when you have a dramatic