U.S. Senate hopeful Smith raps Hassan on her silence on High Court nominee

U.S. Senate hopeful Kevin Smith hoping to unseat Sen. Maggie Hassan (Smith/Rochester Voice file; Hassan/Courtesy)

LONDONDERRY - As the confirmation hearings start for Biden's supreme court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Maggie Hassan remains silent on Jackson's troubling record, one of her potential challengers said today in a statement. In a 50-50 tied U.S. Senate, Hassan could be the deciding vote in installing the far-left's handpicked activist judge on the Supreme Court.

"Ketanji Brown Jackson has a troubling record that falls out of line with our Granite State values, whether it be her zealous work defending terrorists, her open-borders agenda, or her weak-on-crime sentencing history," Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Kevin Smith said. "Even worse, she not only refused to answer questions about court-packing, but it has come to light that she routinely handed down significantly lighter sentences for child pornography offenders than what justice and the law called for."

Ketanji Brown Jackson has a troubling record of left-wing activism, Smith said including.

· Jackson has a record of being soft on criminals, routinely handing out sentences for criminals that were belowwhat guidelines recommended.

· While on the district court in Washington, she routinely sentenced child pornography offenders to below what the justice department was seeking and sentencing guidelines recommended.

· In one case, guidelines called for up to 10 years in prison for a man convicted of child pornography possession, yet she sentenced him to three months.

· She worked as a lawyer for Guantanamo Bay terrorists, going as far as to oppose confinement conditions of a Taliban leader who is alleged to have run a terrorist cell.

· She blocked a commonsense national security measure expediting removal of illegal immigrants, because DHS "didn't consider the impact" on the illegal immigrants, disregarding our communities.

· She blocked a government-accountability executive order that would have allowed federal government agencies to fire poor performing workers, a decision that was unanimously overturned.

"Hassan needs to answer.," Smith added. "Does she support Jackson's record/ As your Senator, I would oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson."