{"id":45165,"date":"2022-04-07T13:35:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45165"},"modified":"2022-04-07T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:35:50","slug":"what-should-the-sentence-be-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45165","title":{"rendered":"What Should The Sentence Be?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, The Epoch Times<\/a> reported that Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Tuesday blocked legislation in the Senate that would have strengthened penalties for child porn possession, saying the bill \u201cdoesn\u2019t reflect the realities of today.\u201d<\/p>\n

What realities of today is he talking about?<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

The legislation\u2014put forward by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and cosponsored by Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.)\u2014comes after weeks of heated debate over Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s track record in sentencing child porn offenders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After one such debate in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Durbin, who chairs the committee, said that the Senate had been derelict in its duty to update child porn law, which was originally designed to deal with physical images rather than digital ones.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI hope you will agree we all want to do everything within our power to lessen incidents of child pornography and exploitation,\u201d Durbin said last week. \u201cI want to tell you, Congress doesn\u2019t have clean hands. We haven\u2019t touched this now for 15, 16, or 17 years.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Durbin added that Congress had shown \u201cinattention and unwillingness to tackle an extremely controversial issue.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve introduced a bill to change this\u2014I\u2019ll be looking for it,\u201d Durbin told Hawley. \u201cIf we\u2019re going to tackle it, we should.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Referencing that interaction, Hawley said on the Senate floor Tuesday: \u201cI agree 100 percent. I agree we should tackle it, this is the time to tackle it, and I\u2019m here to do that today.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2003, Congress passed legislation instituting mandatory minimum sentencing for child porn offenders. In a controversial decision, the Supreme Court in\u00a0United States v. Booker struck down the mandatory minimum laws, which bind judges\u2019 hands, as unconstitutional.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not the time to be ‘looking at it”–this is the time to do something about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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