Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
Here's the appropriate answer to all questions about either "why did you give this offender a light sentence," or "why do you in general give offenders light sentences?"
"All of my sentences were within the minimum and maximum sentence guidelines for the given offense. While they were influenced by recommendations by attorneys for the state and for the defendant, they were my decisions in every case and I take responsibility for them. I'll be happy to recount my deliberations on any specific case, as best as I can remember them, or refresh my memory with any documents available. It won't be a short answer, but you control your time, Senator."
Clearly, the judge was of a mind that downloading and viewing child porn is not on the same immoral plane as being the one abusing the children to produce the porn. We may disagree with that. I certainly do. But it is no more radical opinion than the near universal American belief that buying products made by child/slave labor is not on the same moral plane as employing children in factories or using slave labor to produce.
Clearly, this is a Biden nominee that the right does not like. What should we do, wait for that Biden nominee that the right will like? Conservatives should be happy that Team Biden picked a clearly under-qualified judge because they based their choice on demographics and ideology. She will be no intellectual match for a Justice like Clarence Thomas, chosen first for his qualifications and second for his skin color.
"All of my sentences were within the minimum and maximum sentence guidelines for the given offense. While they were influenced by recommendations by attorneys for the state and for the defendant, they were my decisions in every case and I take responsibility for them. I'll be happy to recount my deliberations on any specific case, as best as I can remember them, or refresh my memory with any documents available. It won't be a short answer, but you control your time, Senator."
Clearly, the judge was of a mind that downloading and viewing child porn is not on the same immoral plane as being the one abusing the children to produce the porn. We may disagree with that. I certainly do. But it is no more radical opinion than the near universal American belief that buying products made by child/slave labor is not on the same moral plane as employing children in factories or using slave labor to produce.
Clearly, this is a Biden nominee that the right does not like. What should we do, wait for that Biden nominee that the right will like? Conservatives should be happy that Team Biden picked a clearly under-qualified judge because they based their choice on demographics and ideology. She will be no intellectual match for a Justice like Clarence Thomas, chosen first for his qualifications and second for his skin color.