Republicans, after years of pushing for softer criminal sentences, return to the party’s law-and-order posture in Jackson’s confirmation hearing
Republicans on the Judiciary Committee hailed their work in late 2018 to win overwhelming support for a law designed to weaken sentences on crimes, particularly on lower level drug offenses, turning away from their traditional approach. Now, with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination hearings before the committee this week, the GOP is returning to its law-and-order roots epitomized by the Willie Horton-type ads of the late 1980s.
