UPDATED: Candace, and Hinderaker — each offer a knowingly-specious, and therefore racist- and sexist- attack on KBJ this afternoon.

He (and she) parrots a hard right GOP line of argument, but phrased as a deceptive leading question, from yesterday’s hearings.

And. as KBJ deftly pointed out (in her replies — much to the red faces of Blackburn, Cruz and Graham), yes those moronic, malevolent GOP Senators, saying that someone “didn’t give the absolute maximum sentence in the substantive statute” for a given offense… is in no manner co-terminous with “soft on crime” (of any kind, let alone kiddie porn, as she, John and they alleged).

You see — as at least John and the Senators well-know — there are GOP created (under Saint Ronnie Reagan) “federal guidelines” that arch over every substantive crime sentence provision, and essentially tie a judge’s hands — to prevent anything outside of a very narrow range, in months and years. [In this regard, especially as to child sexual predators, this is why FBI often turns the accused over to state prosecution, as for example in Colorado, where natural life without parole is the sentence — and no federal guideline will ever be applied to reduce that. Meanwhile, in Ohio, where the Subway guy (Jared) was able to get a federal, rather than state prosecution, for child sex trafficking, he will now be eligible for release — in under five years — serving less than 12 total. So to say the GOP Senators (and Hinderaker) are lying… is to be quite charitable.]

In every case, KJB fully complied with that federal guideline calculation in sentencing — as it is substantive law (and she sat exclusively on federal cases). Yes — she’s bound to follow the law, until amended or repealed. and she did so.

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To say that not every sentence reached the natural-life-no-parole max, for each offender… is to BOLDLY LIE, about how the sentencing process at the federal level actually works.

And John knows it (he was, at least allegedly, once trained as a lawyer — though clearly that license has long lapsed). But he takes this lie a wobbly series of dishonest steps beyond that to say that Democrats are “okay” with child porn, solely, since the NYT criticized the questions, by explaining that the questions emanate from the Q-Anon Pizzagate smear. That smear was proved to be a lie as early as 2016.

So, again John — you can just f#ck right off with these preposterous lies.

Smearing a future SCOTUS Justice — dishonestly — is a crap look, even for… you.