Questions for Judge Jackson

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Ya, the QAnon base has never forgiven that prosecution, largely because they couldn't squirm their way out of the end result.

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Something I did not know that explains much of the kook's vitriol towards Judge Jackson: Judge Jackson presided over the "Pizzagate" case in 2017 where Edgar Madison Welch was charged with entering Comet Ping Pong armed with a rifle and shooting off several rounds. Welch was convinced, by conspiracy theories circulating amongst right-wing nut jobs , that Comet Ping Pong was where John Podesta and Hilary Clinton ran a child sex ring.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ketan ... pizzagate/

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Interview with Sen Whitehouse. His response about where the Rep questions came from during her hearings:

"It's called Independent Women's forum, Independent Women's Voice, Independent Women's Law Center. It's very attached to Leonard Leo, who's done all the judge picking and his pair of front groups, 85 Fund and the Concord Fund, which are funded by the Kochs and their foundations and the Bradley Foundation and it was run by a Koch lobbyist for years while she also ran Americans For Prosperity, the big Koch brothers political mothership.

"And surprise, surprise! In one of these organizations, you will find none other than Senator Hawley's spouse working, and they directed everyone actually before before Judge Jackson was even named, 'It is important you focus not on the selection process or on the nominee's paper qualifications, but rather on the need to learn more about the nominee's --- and this is italics and bold, 'judicial philosophy.'

"So that comes straight out of swamp dark money talking points and you see the same thing with the sexual angle on her child pornography sentencing that came out of another front group with all sorts of creepy ties, including to the legendary Cleta Mitchell, and the guy who runs that one was Ted Cruz's oppo guy and Cruz for president.

"So you've got Hawley and Cruz who are saying these things with like family members and staff
feeding stuff to them from these dark money groups. If it weren't so sickening, it would be funny."