1/4 I particularly relate to a powerful moment during Judge Jackson’s hearing when, after being wrongly criticized over and over again by Senators Cruz, Cotton and Hawley for her sentences in child pornography cases, she laid out what it means to deal with these cases
2/4 She explained to these men how, as a mother, not only does she have to read graphic descriptions of these materials but she has to look at the photographs and watch the tapes in order to pass sentence and how she has to live with these images every day.
3/4 The hardest cases I’ve had as a prosecutor involve the sexual and physical abuse of children. Once you’ve had such a case, once you’ve had to face the facts of these cases and still do your job, the word victim ceases to be something you carelessly throw around.
4/4 What Judge Jackson politely explained to Sen. Cruz-Cotton-Hawley is that, while they used to the word victim to score political points, for her the word represents the nightmares she can’t erase from her memory when she closes her eyes at night. I know what she means. I know.
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