As the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation continues, GOP senators turn up the heat in their questioning. Jackson reveals interesting information about her views on civil rights, the unborn, and child pornography.

From Fox News. Senate Republicans tangled with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Wednesday about whether her sentences as a trial judge show she’s soft on crime – as Democrats came to the defense of President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee and highlighted the historic significance of her nomination….

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GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Ted Cruz of Texas, Josh Hawley of Missouri and Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas spent time Wednesday digging through her sentences in several child pornography cases. They repeatedly questioned why she didn’t sentence them for longer time behind bars.

Cotton further pressed Jackson on her handling of a resentencing for a fentanyl dealer….

Jackson explained to Graham that child pornography guidelines were initially created when offenders were sending individual images in the mail. Computers dramatically changed the landscape, she said.

Now thousands of images can be distributed “with one click,” Jackson said. Judges rely on the system that Congress created “to be rational in our dealing with some of the most horrible kinds of behavior.”

“You can be doing this for 15 minutes, and all of a sudden you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years in prison,” Jackson said, in explaining her sentencing decisions.

“Good, good. Absolutely good,” Graham interrupted.

“So you don’t think that’s a bad thing. I think that’s a horrible thing,” he said.

Jackson also told Graham: “Every person in all of these charts and documents I sent to jail because I know how serious this crime is….”

Wednesday will be the final day of questioning of Jackson, before a hearing Thursday with outside witnesses. Democrats are optimistic she has the votes in the Senate and Durbin is still hoping she may get some GOP support. If confirmed, she’ll replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, for whom she once clerked.

Like Tuesday, the toughest lines of questioning came from past and potential presidential hopefuls. That included one child porn case in which Jackson sentenced an 18-year-old male to three months when the government recommended a longer sentence of 24 months.

“You gave him three months. My question is, do you regret it or not?” Hawley said.

Jackson replied: “What I regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme Court, we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences.”

Cruz displayed a poster of eight child porn cases where he said Jackson sentenced the defendants to less time than what the government prosecutors and sentencing guidelines recommended. He asked why she consistently gave out lesser sentences on child porn cases “100% of the time.”

“Senator, no one case can stand in for a judge’s entire sentencing record,” Jackson said. “I’ve sentenced more than 100 people. You have eight or nine cases in that chart….”

But Jackson, with the help of Democrats on Senate Judiciary Committee, sought to pivot to her personal biography by highlighting how far the country has come on civil rights with her parents growing up in “Florida under lawful segregation” and now, a generation later, she’s having the opportunity to become the nation’s 116th Supreme Court justice.

“What my being here,” Jackson told the senators, “… is about the progress that we’ve made in this country in a very short period of time,” Jackson said….

With a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court in the balance, senators sought to drill down her previous record as a federal trial judge and her judicial philosophy but complained they didn’t have the same access to information that Democrats did….

On other issues, Jackson said she doesn’t know whether a 20-week-old unborn child can feel pain. She also promised to recuse herself from an upcoming case on Harvard University allegedly discriminating against Asian-American students. Jackson is a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers.

Thursday’s hearing will feature testimony from outside groups and character witnesses, but not from Jackson herself.

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(Excerpt from Fox News. Photo Credit: Getty Images)