i say to them, that there is only a market for this kind of material because there are lookers, that you are contributing to child sex abuse and then i impose a significant sentence, and all of the additional restraints that are available in the law. these people are looking at 20, 30, 40 years of supervision. they can't use their computers in a normal way for decades. i am imposing all of those constraints because i understand how significant, how damaging, how horrible this crime is. >> it should be noticed as well that the cases which the senator from missouri referred to yesterday all resulted in incarceration of some magnitude. one case, the hilley case, i want to quote what you said on the record, this family has been torn apart, speaking to the defendant, by your criminal actions, you saw it on the faces of those women, you heard it in their voices and the impact of your acts on those very real victims who are still struggling to recover this day makes your crime among the most serious criminal offense this court has ever sentenced. and imposed a sentence of 29 1/2 years on th

i say to them that there is only a market for this kind of material because there are lookers, that you are contributing to child sex abuse. and then i impose a significant sentence and all of the additional restraints that are available in the law. these people are looking at 20, 30, 40 years of supervision. they their computers in a normal way for decades. i am imposing all of those constraints because i understand how significant, how damaging, how horrible this crime is. >> it should be noticed as well that the cases which the senator from missouri referred to yesterday all result in incarceration of some magnitude. one case the hilly case, i want to quote what you said on the record. this family has been torn apart, speaking to the defendant, by your criminal actions. you saw it on the faces of those women. you heard it in their voices and the impact of your acts on those very real victims who are still struggling to -- makes your crime the most serious sentence that this court has sentenced and you imposed 29 1/2 years on this defendant. as the senator says you look at this lenien

i say to them, that there's only a market for this kind of material because there are lookers, that you contributing to child sex abuse and then i impose a significant sentence and all of the additional restraints that are available in the law. these people are looking at 20, 30, 40 years of supervision. they can't use their computers in a normal way for decades. i am imposing all of those constraints because i understand how significant, how damaging, how horrible this crime is. >> it should be noticed as well that the cases which the senator from missouri referred to yesterday all resulted in incarceration of some magnitude. in the one case, the hilly case, i want to quote what you said on the record. this family has been torn apart, speaking to the defendant, by your criminal actions. you saw it on the faces of those women. you heard it in their voices and the impact of your acts on those very real victims who are still struggling to recover this day makes your crime among the most serious criminal offense this court has ever sentenced, and you imposed a sentence of 29 and a half yea

know how to behave around them to present themselves, and it takes away, you know, an interesting lookere playful and homoerotic and maybe intoll rant, all those things that get woven into locker room culture what do you do when mi there. >> in a story like this, one thing i loved about fiction is that it often times provides enough sugar for us to delve into facts that through stories we get to solve the puzzles that we can't seem to solve in real life. i know a lot of guys out there who would be, i'm fine with guys who are gay what 23 your friend is gay. >> that is not cool, we have to keep our distance but i'm still cool with him, what changed it is interesting when you realize that there is still an idea of what gay is or isn't and how we react to it. >> that is actually one the more interesting things, there is that idea of what that means. and if you, but if you don't we life in a different way, it leaves you kind of flailing for something to grasp at that makes you, what does gay mean without a demon stable, very much like black men shall ng, it has to be demonstrated and shown in

looker in the municipal arts center, that art comes to life. >> what do you want them to feel?em to feel what we feel. >> which is? >> terrified but honor and that history is now. . >> history is now. . >>? yes. >> working on a series of anti-war posters, stickers and cards like this one. . >> this drawing you're working on here, it is the last judgment. >> yes. >> show me who is being judged here. >> mr. putin, his soldiers, his generals and maybe some civilians. >> ukrainian judgment, it says. >> it will be judgment for russians. >> this is dark. >> yes. you see the ground is black. because we live in black times. very, very dark, terrible times. . >> you want to tell the world your story? >> yes. because we are part of the world. we are not some crazy people that are killing each other. no. >> he was just one of many working at this strrbgs a war-time hub from artists all over the country. they turned one gallery into an air raid shelter. their art is their own form of resistance. >> why is it important to show these images? >> this is not only war. it is great culture. we c

i say to them that there is only a market for this kind of material because there are lookers. that you are contributing to child sex abuse. and then i impose a significant sentence, and all of the additional restraints that are available in the law. these people are looking at 20, 30, 40 years of supervision. they can't use their computers in a normal way for decades. i am imposing all of those constraints because i understand how significant, how damaging, how horrible this crime is. >> it should be noticed as well that the cases which the senator referred to yesterday all resulted in incarceration of some magnitude. one case the hilly case i want to quote what you said on the record. this family has been torn apart, speaking to the defendant, by your criminal actions. you saw it on the faces of those women and heard it in their voices and the impact of your acts on those very real victims who are still struggling to recover this day makes your crime among the most serious criminal offense this court has ever sentenced and you imposed a sentence of 29 1/2 years on that defend

and view of many of the offenders who came before me when i was a trial judge that they were just lookers, they weren't harming anyone, they were curating their collections and never touched a child, i made sure they understood that not withstanding their collecting behavior that they were causing significant harm. >> you raise your actual sentencing and i think that's productive. let's take a look at your actual sentencing. you had ten different cases involving child pornography. these are the cases. there are two. you said it's a sickening and egregious crime, which i very much agree. you said the guidelines lead to extreme departures. let's look at what the prosecutors are asking for . the prosecutor asked for 78 to 97 months. you imposed 28 months. 28 months is a 64% reduction. in the united states versus cooper, the prosecutor asked for 72 months. you imposed 60 months. that was a 17% reduction. in united states versus downs, the prosecutor asked for 70 months. you imposed 60. that was a 14% reduction. the united states versus hawkins, the prosecutor asked for 24 months. you imposed

and view of many of the offenders that came before me when i was a trial judge that they were just lookers, they weren't really harming anyone, that they were cure rating their collections and they never touched a child, i made sure that they understood that not withstanding there collecting behavior that they were causing significant harm. >> so judge jackson, you raise your actual sentencing. that is very productive. let's take a look at your actual sentencing. you've had ten different cases involving child pornography. these are the cases. there's two u.s. versus butress and u.s. versus cann for which the government did not make a recommendation. you said earlier, it was a sickening and egregious crime, which i agree with and the guidelines lean to extreme departures. okay. let's look at what the prosecutors are asking for. i would note this is in the district of columbia where prosecutors are far more liberal than many prosecutors in this country. in every space in which -- united states versus hess, a mandatory of 60 months. you had no discretion. united states versus nickerson, there

and view of many of the offenders who came before me when i was a trial judge that they were just lookers, that they weren't really harming anyone, that they were curating their collections and they never touched a child, i made sure that they understood that notwithstanding their collecting behavior that they were causing significant harm. >> so judge jackson, all right, you raise your actual sentencing, and i think that's very productive. let's take a look at your actual sentencing. and you've had ten different cases involving child pornography. these are the cases. there are two, u.s. versus butry and u.s. versus cann for which the government did not make a recommendation. you said earlier when chairman durbin was trying to pre-empt this line of attack, you said it's a sickening and egregious crime, which i very much agree with. and you said the guidelines lean to extreme departures. let's look at what the prosecutors are asking for. i would know this was in the district of columbia where prosecutors are far more liberal than many of the prosecutors in this country. and in every case i

there is only a market because there are lookers. you are contributing to child sex abuse. all of the additional restraints that are available in the law -- i impose a strict sentence and all of the additional restraints that are available in the law. these people cannot use computers in a normal way for decades. i am imposing all of those constraints because i understand how significant, how thank you,. chairman. judge, nice to see you again. congratulations on your nomination. i want to start where senator blumenthal left off. i want to talk to you about these cases that i mentioned yesterday. you know which ones i want to talk about. the seven cases, child pornography cases in which you had discretion that came before you. you had discretion to sentence one way or another in the seven cases. not every case you have discretion, sometimes all requires you to impose a certain sentence. but you had discretion on each of these seven and you chose to depart from the federal guidelines, and also from the prosecutor's recommendation. senator lee ask you about this. senator cruz

there is only a market because there are lookers. you are contributing to child sex abuse. all of the additional restraints that are available in the law -- i impose a strict sentence and all of the additional restraints that are available in the law. these people cannot use computers in a normal way for decades. i am imposing all of those constraints because i understand how significant, how damaging, how horrible this crime is. sen. durbin: it should be noticed as well that the, cases which the senator from missouri mentioned yesterday always resulted in incarceration of some magnitude. i want to read what you wrote on the record -- " this family has been torn apart. you heard it in their voices. the impact on the victims makes your crime the most serious offense this crime has ever sentenced," and you imposed 29.5 years on that sentence. your record -- what we are dealing with here is an issue, which this committee and members of the committee have not wanted to admit -- the original law was written years ago and the quantity of material was relevant to sentencing. now t

looker forward to your testimon. our next witness is ashli watts, ms. watts is the president and ceof the kentuckye chamber of commerce, the largest business association in the state representing 3800 businesses which employ over half of the state's workforce. ms. watts, appreciate you joining us today to share your timeor and expertise. we will also be hearing from peter beard, the senior vice president foror regional workfoe development for the greater houston partnership. mr. beard leads the partnership's upskill houston initiative, a business-led effort that engages more than 200 employers, educational institutes, urcommunity-based organizations, and the workforce system. thank you so much for joining us today. look forward to your testimony. finally, we're also joined by nicole sherard-freeman, the group executive for jobs, economy, and detroit at work, for the city a of detroit. in this role, she tackles both the city's economic and workforce development functions to attract and retain businesses and provide pathways for workers' success in the jo

that for every defendant who comes before me and who suggests, as they often do, that they're just a lookere, but how sentencing guidelines are outdate. >> reporter: criticism of her record on child porn cases has been the most critical attack so far. they've been raised by senator josh hawley. he said her record is a long record that lets offenders off the hook in sentences which she issued below the federal guidelines in several cases. hawley accused her of endangering children. those claims came out yesterday with her two young daughters sitting in the hearing chamber. today we heard from her directly. she was very forceful. i was in the room. you could have heard a pin drop. all 22 senators were fixated on ketanji brown jackson. they were listening to her intently. she pushed back explaining that those guidelines for sentences in child porn cases are arbitrary. the congress actually gives judges discretion to look at the guidelines and take into account other factors. judge jackson said she sentenced 20, 30, 40 years of supervision, forbids them from using computers. a clear effort for

when we looker at what they have done across the globe and it raises the cost for strategic competitorsu are right to be focused on this topic. we continue around the f world and we are happy continue that conversation with you on more specifics in another setting. >> are any of our allies supporting are we making any. >> but i don't know if any are coming to mind but we can look into it. >> when we are submitting shipping arms action not in any way be linked to the wagner group. i assume that is us policy? >> we could take that back to get you a response, a written response. i'm not familiar with any allies we can look at partners as well and then we went to highlight it to them since we do not see this as a group i am very supportive of the department of state and defense doing anything possible and to stop them. i yield back. >> thank you mr. chairman. germany's reliance on board stream to hinder their response to support ukraine. it to the military invasion and threat of a nuclear attack and persistent calls from allies for germany to support the surface to air missiles. i was germa

a view of many of the offenders that came before me when i was a trial judge, that they were just lookers, they were not harming anyone, they were curating their collections and they never touched child. i made sure that they understood that they were causing significant harm. >> i think that is very productive. let's take a look at your actual sentencing. you have had 10 different cases involving child pornography. these are the cases that there are two u.s. versus cam. for which the government did not make a recommendation. you said earlier, you said it is a sickening and outrageous crime, which i agree with. he said the guidelines lane to extreme departures. ok. let's look at what the prosecutors are asking for. this was in the district of columbia where prosecutors are far more liberal than many prosecutors in this country. in every case, there was a mandatory, statutory, minimum of 60 months. he imposed 60 months. there was a mutual agreement that the party was at 120 months and that is what you imposed. in every other case, united states versus, the prosecutor asked for you imposed

in view of many of the offenders who came before me when i was a trial judge, that they were just lookers, that they were really harming anyone, that they were curating their collections and they never touched a child, i made sure that they understood that not withstanding their collecting behaviors, that they were causing significant harm. sen. cruz: judge jackson, you raise your actual sentencing, and i think that's productive. let's take a look at your actual sentencing. you've had 10 different cases involving child pornography. these are the cases that there are two. u.s. versus cam for which the government did not make a recommendation. you said, earlier when chairman derman was trying to preempt this line of attack you said it's a sickening and egregious crime. i very much agree with. you said the guidelines lead to extreme departures. ok. let's look at what the prosecutors are asking for. i would note that this was in the district of columbia where prosecutors are more liberal than any prosecutors in the country. in every case in which the united states versus hough, there was a ma