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You talk about her and a resume that would make her one of the most qualified people ever to join the high court, but you also say, and this is what is strike to go me, that her nomination would be, quote, politically unthinkable just a few years ago. why and what changed? well, poppy, i think we saw the reason that it would be politically challenging in many of the questions yesterday. so you have, for example, tom cotton, john cornyn and others bringing up some of her criminal defense work as a way to portray ketanji brown jackson as soft on crime. some of it was at the sentencing level, that she was a district court judge, where as a trial court judge you really have to get into the nitty-gritty of the facts and you re calling on a number of different cases. particularly when it comes to her writing a brief on ....
. gregg: the hate aspect of this serves two functions, not only crimes in and of themselves, but during sentencing, hate borne of race and disability as well, mental handicap can be an aggregating factor to elevating the sentence. right, in new york, if you are charged with low level felony but deemed to be a hate crime, you ratchet up to the next sentencing level, and the fact that s taeb into consideration in this case in chicago, the judge is going to consider it, the probation department will consider it. they re facing a much stiffer sentence than normal. gregg: aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. unlawful restraint. aggravated again. you look at some of the things and it s only one year two, years, i looked up the statutes. that s not enough for something like that. that s why the enhanced penalty will come from the hate crime factor, because that is, when something is motivated by ....