President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s academic writings and sentencing record reveal a history of lenient punishments for sex offenders, including individuals convicted on child pornography charges. News of the trend first revealed by Senator Josh Hawley follows the convictions of several progressive activists and officials on child pornography charges. An article authored by Judge Jackson for the Harvard Law Review from May 7th, 1996 – “Prevention versus Punishment: Toward a Principled Distinction in the Restraint of Released Sex Offenders” – reveals Jackson questioning the necessity of registering sex offenders. “Community notification subjects ex-convicts to stigmatization and
