Posted on 02/26/2022 11:34:41 AM PST by gattaca
Ketanji Brown Jackson's defense of Gitmo detainees and criticism of U.S. government likely to be spotlighted in confirmation process.
0:00 / 0:00 By Aaron Kliegman Updated: February 25, 2022 - 11:37pm Article Dig In President Biden's nominee for the Supreme Court represented suspected terrorists when she was a federal public defender, going well beyond a bare-bones defense to lambaste the U.S. government for some if its counterterrorism policies and broader approach to the War on Terror.
Biden on Friday nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson, currently a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.
Jackson's record will no doubt be heavily scrutinized in the coming days as the Senate prepares for its confirmation hearings. Perhaps no aspect of her past legal work will come under more scrutiny than her advocacy on behalf of prisoners detained at the Guantanamo Bay military prison as enemy combatants for their alleged role in terrorist activities.
During her time in the federal public defender's office, Jackson represented Guantanamo detainees who challenged their imprisonment in a federal court in Washington, D.C.
One of the most prominent cases involved Jackson representing Khiali-Gul, who the Defense Department said was a Taliban intelligence officer in charge of a terrorist cell planning to attack a U.S. base in Afghanistan in 2002. He may have also met with Osama bin Laden in November 2001, according to government documents.
The Defense Department assessed that if released Gul would immediately "seek out prior associates and reengage in hostilities and extremist support activities."
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The source is Just the News, not Breitbart. I have informed the moderator. Sorry.
So she is a traitor who wanted to see more Americans murdered.
Why is this surprising?
Doesn’t matter, our girls in the Senate will still vote for her, Linda, Lisa, Susan and Ms. Misty Mittens.
Look, thats what lawyers are supposed to do. If they don’t go to whatever (legal) lengths necessary to defend their clients, then they aren’t doing their job.
.Gov is always right, and never lies. So this must be true, because .gov says so.
Is this less than stellar judge who the Dems really intend to be on the bench, or do they want her voted down? They can then call Republicans racist and nominate someone more intellectually formidable, who could presumably not be rejected.
Heavily sanitized is more likely.
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There are what 535 members of Congress.
3 of them will even care.
I do not know if she was involved in it, but one group of defense lawyers illegally gave identifying information on interrogators...home addresses, etc...to detainees.
No matter what, a liberal will be appointed.
Let “Stella get her groove on”, and hammer the Dems on everything else.
The timing of this isn’t an accident.
Not surprising at ALL in the DC “BLM” Circuit that included:
Emmett Sullivan and... Merrick Garland. Looney and probably queer activists of Leftist juris- NON prudence or Constitutionality of the “living docuemnt” changed from the Bench persuasion.
“So she is a traitor who wanted to see more Americans murdered.”
How about telling us something that makes her different than any other Democrat judge?
That isn’t an excuse to somehow miss the fact shes a radical liberal socialist who is at extreme odds with the constitution and our form of government.
It goes way beyond merely being a lawyer putting up the best defense for a client. Many lawyers do not choose to take certain clients, also.
YAWN...Lindsey will be so excited he’ll wet his pants voting for her.
GOA came out strongly against her.
I read that. They said even RINO Lindsey Graham thinks Biden’s nominee is a radical.
It was kind of her job, being a leftist lawyer and all that. I wouldn't vote for her, but I'm not a leftist.
But she’s Paul Ryan’s IN LAW, so she MUST be FABULOUS!/s
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