Durbin, White House disparage emerging conservative attack on KBJ sex offender rulings

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is pictured on her way to a meeting at the Capitol on March 16, 2022, in Washington. | Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo

By Marianne LeVine

03/17/2022 11:52 AM EDT

Updated: 03/17/2022 12:11 PM EDT

Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin and the Biden White House on Thursday derided a new GOP attack on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, centered on her handling of sex offenders.

“I don’t believe in it being taken seriously,” Durbin said in an interview about the charges leveled by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). “I’m troubled by it because

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