{"id":7603,"date":"2022-04-08T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7603"},"modified":"2022-04-08T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:52:25","slug":"conservatives-say-they-care-about-the-constitution-until-they-talk-about-criminal-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7603","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives Say They Care About the Constitution. Until They Talk About Criminal Justice."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“GOP senators who are attacking<\/a> President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick seem weirdly unaware of how our justice system works. By focusing in part on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s former role as a criminal defense attorney, they act as if it’s wrong to provide a defense to people accused of a crime\u2014and that if the government levels a charge, it must be right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey, if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear\u2014or something like that. “Like any attorney who has been in any kind of practice, they are going to have to answer for the clients they represented and the arguments they made,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R\u2013Mo.) said<\/a> in reference to Jackson and other Biden nominees. Apparently, defense attorneys should only defend choirboys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet I guarantee if Hawley\u2014known for his fist pump<\/a> in support of Jan. 6 protestors at the U.S. Capitol\u2014became the target of an overzealous prosecutor who accused him of inciting an insurrection, he’d be happy to have a competent defense attorney to advocate on his behalf. That attorney shouldn’t be forever stained for defending someone as loathsome as Hawley.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Jackson will be the nation’s first Supreme Court justice to have served as a public defender, with Thurgood Marshall being the last justice to have criminal defense experience.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“A\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0last year by the libertarian Cato Institute found the Trump administration’s judicial appointments tilted in favor of prosecutors over those who represented individuals by a 10-to-one margin. Only 14 percent of the liberal Obama administration’s appointees defended individuals. Most judges strive to be fair, but their backgrounds color their worldview.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/04\/08\/conservatives-say-they-care-about-the-constitution-until-they-talk-about-criminal-justice\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“GOP senators who are attacking President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick seem weirdly unaware of how our justice system works. By focusing in part on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s former role as a criminal defense attorney, they act as if it’s wrong to provide a defense to people accused of a crime\u2014and that if the government levels a charge, it must be right.<\/p>\n

Hey, if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear\u2014or something like that. “Like any attorney who has been in any kind of practice, they are going to have to answer for the clients they represented and the arguments they made,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R\u2013Mo.) said in reference to Jackson and other Biden nominees. Apparently, defense attorneys should only defend choirboys.<\/p>\n

Yet I guarantee if Hawley\u2014known for his fist pump in support of Jan. 6 protestors at the U.S. Capitol\u2014became the target of an overzealous prosecutor who accused him of inciting an insurrection, he’d be happy to have a competent defense attorney to advocate on his behalf. That attorney shouldn’t be forever stained for defending someone as loathsome as Hawley.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Jackson will be the nation’s first Supreme Court justice to have served as a public defender, with Thurgood Marshall being the last justice to have criminal defense experience.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“A study last year by the libertarian Cato Institute found the Trump administration’s judicial appointments tilted in favor of prosecutors over those who represented individuals by a 10-to-one margin. Only 14 percent of the liberal Obama administration’s appointees defended individuals. Most judges strive to be fair, but their backgrounds color their worldview.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[219,429,790,280,1213],"class_list":["post-7603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conservatives","tag-constitution","tag-courts","tag-criminal-justice","tag-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7604,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions\/7604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}