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An award-winning adult film star has died at just 35 years old after battling Crohn’s disease and suffering a life-threatening infection.
Raven Alexis died last Wednesday in , her husband confirmed in videos posted to and one day later.
He said she was brought to a local hospital on March 20 ‘with some complications and some stomach Crohn’s/colitis issues she had dealt with.’
Crohn’s is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and irritation in the digestive track. The most common form affects the small intestines and the beginning part of the large intestines, according to the
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‘It was a great ride, and they have a terrific business model for themselves, and I was fortunate to make some amazing and wonderfully selling movies in my time with them.’
But Alexis continued to see success even after she parted ways with Digital Playhouse, going on to star in a string of high-profile projects like Exile Pictures’ The Graduate XXX: A Paul Thomas Parody, Third Degree Films’ The Official Revenge of the Nerds Parody and Axel Braun’s This Ain’t Ghostbusters XXX3D for Hustler Video.
In 2011, she was nominated for an award in the Best New Starlet category at the AVN Awards and won a pair of trophies for her scene in the Digital Playhouse film Body Heat with Riley Steele, Jesse Jane, Katsuni and Kayden Kross – the Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene and the Fan Award for Wildest Sex Scene.
She was famously seen at the awards show in a red leather dress with crutches, after she said she climbed onto a shelf to grab something high up in her house and injured her hip.
That same year, Alexis also appeared on the Adult Swim show Children’s Hospital as the ‘Porno Nurse.’
But soon Alexis became embroiled in controversy, after telling Jon Lieberman on Sirius XM’s The Howard Stern Show that she had been diagnosed with stage four liver cancer.
She said in the September 2011 episode that the cancer had spread to her brain and claimed, ‘Chemo is hard … not eating is really hard.’
Shortly after the episode aired, though, her boyfriend at the time contradicted her claims she had cancedied alone in her apartment after doing ketamine and was ‘unrecognizable’ when police found her four days later.
Her mother Stephanie told DailyMail.com that she reported her missing on March 15 after not hearing from her for several days.
She is believed to have died on the 11th – the last time anyone heard from her.
Stephanie Montalbano said that while an official cause of death has not yet been provided, her daughter had been doing ketamine the night she died and that she believes she died from a ‘bad batch’ of the drug.
She was alone and her apartment was locked when police found her body next to drug paraphernalia.
Angelina dabbled in ‘party drugs’ like cocaine and ketamine, her mother explained, adding that while she did not approve of her drug use, she wanted to know about it.
The family has now raised more than $20,000 on GoFundMe to bring Francesca’s body back to Chicago, where she grew up, for burial.
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An man who faked his own death and fled the state to avoid a trial on child pornography charges has been arrested after six years on the run.
Jacob Channce Greer, 28, from Des Moines, was found on Monday and arrested in Spanaway, Washington, 1,700miles away from his grandmother’s home after fleeing with money, a bow, arrows and a backpack full of survival gear.
Jacob Channce Greer, 28, from Des Moines, was found on Monday and arrested after last being seen at a Wal-Mart in Kalispell, Montana, on June 3, 2016, wearing a camouflage hat
He was last seen at a in Kalispell, , on June 3, 2016, wearing a camouflage hat.
Mike Powell, supervisory deputy U.S. marshal for the Southern District of Iowa, told that Mr Greer was living ‘off the grid’ after he fled his grandmother’s property.
‘After that, we think he probably traveled to the state of Washington,’ Mr Powell added and that he was living in homeless shelters ‘and taking odd jobs when he could.’
It is not known how Mr Greer made it to Spanaway, whether he was helped or how he managed to survive for six years.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers first arrested Mr Greer on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography in April 2016.
Described by the authorities as a ‘survivalist’, he was released under pretrial supervision with an ankle monitor and was living with his grandmother in Des Moines.
On May 31, 2016, Mr Greer’s probation officer received a monitoring alert indicating his GPS device had been removed.
A multiagency search effort ensued and Mr Greer’s vehicle was found with a suicide note inside of it.
Mr Greer was arrested in Spanaway, Washington, 1,700miles away from his grandmother’s home after fleeing with money, a bow, arrows and a backpack full of survival gear
However, searchers did not find Mr Greer’s body and a federal arrest warrant was issued that day.
Through additional interviews, investigators learned Mr Greer was a ‘survivalist’ and had plans to ‘live off the land’ in remote areas of the upper western states or southern Canada, hiding out in abandoned cabins.
On June 8, 2016, the forestry service located another vehicle associated with Mr Greer in Tuchuck Campground in Flathead, Montana, but he was not there.
Described by the authorities as a ‘survivalist’, he was released under pretrial supervision with an ankle monitor and porno was living with his grandmother in Des Moines (pictured)
Through additional interviews, investigators learned Mr Greer was a survivalist and had plans to live off the land in remote areas of the upper western states or southern Canada, hiding out in abandoned cabins (stock image of Spanaway, Washington)
Investigators discovered Mr Greer had purchased the car with a $1,000 loan from a friend and that he had fled Iowa.
‘The arrest of Jacob Greer after six years is a testament to the tenacity of Deputy U.S. Marshals and our investigative partners,’ said U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Iowa Ted Kamatchus. ‘Even though the case went cold, they would not quit.’
Mr Greer is currently at the Federal Detention Center in Seattle and he will be brought to Des Moines to stand trial.
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Zackary Sanders, 27 (in mugshot) has been jailed for 18 years for child porn offenses
The son of a multimillionaire doctor dubbed the ‘father of telemedicine’ has been jailed for 18 years for child porn offenses.
Zackary Sanders, 27, was given the jail term by a federal judge who praised him as ‘a pretty amazing, inventive, energetic young man.
But he added: ‘What you did was wrong.’
Sanders’s father is Jay Sanders, 84, a Harvard-educated doctor who is credited with popularizing telemedicine in the 1990s when he advised the Clinton administration.
The family owned a $3.4 million, seven bedroom home n McLean, Virginia, but sold it in May last year, five months before their son was convicted at trial.
It appears to be this property where, according to court documents, 26 law enforcement agents carried out a 6am raid in February 2020 with their guns drawn.
They are said to have ‘pulled Mr.Sanders’s parents out of their home and forced Mr. Sanders at gunpoint into his mother’s office’.
Members of Sanders’s family, including his mother Risa, 64, appeared tense while in court for the sentencing of their son in Alexandria, Virginia, last week.
Sanders was jailed by judge T.S.Ellis for 12 counts relating to receiving, producing and possessing child pornography.
The trial heard that he engaged in conversations with at least six minors on messaging apps and possessed sick videos and images including one which depicted the sexual abuse of a toddler.
His father is Jay Sanders, a doctor who is credited with popularizing telemedicine in the 1990s when he advised the Clinton administration
Sanders directed minors to engage in sexually explicit acts where they harmed themselves and to film themselves doing it – and send the videos to him.Prosecutors said that Sanders possessed videos and images of underage children being ‘subjected to sadistic acts’
The family owned this $3.4m, seven bedroom in McLean, Virginia, but sold it in May last year, five months before their son was convicted at trial
Sanders directed five of the minors to engage in sexually explicit where they harmed themselves and to film themselves doing it – and send the videos to him.
Prosecutors said that Sanders possessed videos and images of underage children being ‘subjected to sadistic acts’.
Judge TS Ellis told him: ‘What you did was wrong’ but then went on to praise Sanders and said that he expected he would bounce back after he completed his jail term
Upon Sanders’s release he will have to sign on as a sex offender and will be subject to supervision for the rest of his life.
Judge Ellis told Sanders that some of the images in his possession were ‘quite awful’.
He said: ‘You’re a smart young man, you can do better.But you need to understand what you did was wrong, it was criminal and you cannot do it ever again’.
Before his conviction Sanders enjoyed a life of privilege thanks to the success of his father, who is president of Global Telemedicine Group, whose clients have included the World Health Organization and the US Department of Defense.
Jay Sanders is currently an adjunct professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who served as the telemedicine representative to the G8 group of industrialized nations during the Clinton administration.
He helped set up the first telemedicine facility in a correctional institute and in 1991 designed the telemedicine system for the state of Georgia.
It was the first statewide system of its kind and it served as the model for many others.
Jay Sanders’s son studied theater at NYU before founding a lighting and concessions business, Oasis Entertainment.
On its website the company says it offers concessions stands, lighting and DJs to ‘keep any party rocking’.
The company boasts that it is ‘proud to be certified by the FDA to operate high powered entertainment lasers’.
On his Twitter account, Sanders calls him: ‘Entrepreneur – Visionary – Designer’.
The Sanders family’s zealous representation of their son included several different lawyers who filed emergency motions to try to get him out of prison.
They sued the FBI for breaching FOIA laws after submitting a request for records from the agency related to its investigations of sex traffickers.
Sanders’s parents offered to be third party custodians of their son and his mother Risa even testified in court she would be willing to do whatever the court wanted, including removing his electronic devices and making her son wear a monitoring device.
Judge Ellis remarked that he had seen ‘seven or eight’ different law firms before him, porno latin such was the amount of money the family spent on legal representation.
At sentencing he said he had ‘no doubt his parents will continue to support him’.
Jay Sanders is currently an adjunct professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who served as the telemedicine representative to the G8 group of industrialized nations during the Clinton administration
Sanders’s mother Risa appeared tense while in court for the sentencing of their son in Alexandria, Virginia, last week. The Sanders family’s zealous representation of their son included several different lawyers who filed emergency motions to try toget him out of prison
However Judge Ellis ruled that Sanders was too broke to pay a $60,000 special assessment for now and would have to wait until he served his sentence.
Sanders’s only possession – aside from his family’s wealth – is his car, Judge Ellis said.
Judge Ellis went on to praise Sanders and said that he expected he would bounce back after he completed his jail term.
He said: ‘He is a pretty amazing, inventive, energetic young man. Enterprising would be the best word I could use.
‘Even as a child he developed a business…I have no doubt that while his conviction would be a significant burden if he wants to work for Goldman Sachs, they will not be a significant burden if he becomes an entrepreneur, which he will.
‘I think he does have earning potential in the future.’
Judge Ellis has attracted controversy for comments about defendants before, including at the trial of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager.
While jailing Manafort for 47 months for a multi-million dollar fraud scheme Judge Ellis said that the sentencing guidelines of between 19 and 24 years were ‘vindictive’ and ‘way out of whack’.
He said: ‘Go and spend a day in the jail or penitentiary of the federal government.Spend a week there. He has to spend 47 months’.
Judge Ellis added that Manafort, who previously ran a lobbying firm that worked for third world dictators, had led an ‘otherwise blameless life’.
The Sanders family and their lawyer Christopher Amolsch did not respond to messages asking for comment
A columnist who created the notorious ‘Sh***y Media Men’ list detailing allegations of sexual assault, harassment and misconduct could still go to trial for defamation after a judge declined to resolve the case in her favor.
Moira Donegan, 32, who created the widely circulated list in 2017 at the height of the #MeToo movement, was sued by New Orleans-based journalist Stephen Elliott after the spreadsheet accused him of rape, sexual harassment and ‘coercion.’ Elliott’s lawsuit claimed the allegations are ‘false’ and ‘unsubstantiated.’
Donegan’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, sought immunity for her client under a controversial law protecting social media users who host or republish information from being held legally responsible for what others do or say online.
U.S.District Court Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall on Thursday, in an order obtained by DailyMail.com, declined the request, arguing that Donegan’s testimony and ‘vague’ recollections about the document did not ‘rule out the possibility’ that she encouraged others to make posts that broke the law.
DeArcy Hall’s ruling leaves the possibility that Donegan could stand trial for defamation, but the case could still be resolved by the judge on ‘other grounds.’
More than 70 men were named on the ‘Sh***y Media Men’ spreadsheet before it was taken offline.Elliott, who is seeking $1.5 million in damages, appears to be the only alleged victim to sue the Brooklyn-based writer.
Moira Donegan, who created the notorious ‘Sh***y Media Men’ list, could still go to trial for defamation after a judge declined to resolve the case in her favor
Elliott filed his suit against Donegan in 2017, accusing her and at least 30 other unnamed co-defendants of knowingly publishing false allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against him.
His complaint alleged both intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress as a result of him being included on the list.
He claimed the publication caused him to ‘became extremely depressed’ and that he ‘enrolled in therapy while actively contemplating suicide.’
The journalist also claimed his professional life suffered, as well as his personal life, alleging he was met with isolation from ’employers, colleagues, business associates, friends and family members’ after he was accused of ‘being a rapist,’ among other things.
In addition to the financial compensation, Elliott wants a court order requiring the defendants to ‘issue a written retraction to each and every person to whom they originally published the false and defamatory statements.’
Kaplan had attempted to block Elliott’s suit based on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which states: ‘No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.’
Donegan, in an affidavit, alleged she did not ‘solicit or encourage anyone to add false statements or false misconduct allegations’ to the spreadsheet.
Her lawyer also argued that Donegan couldn’t have encouraged any of falsehoods against Elliott because she did not know him.
New Orleans-based journalist Stephen Elliott sued Donegan for defamation after he was named on her list.Donegan’s attorney sought immunity for the columnist under a controversial law protecting social media users that host or republish from being held legally responsible for what others do or xxx viedos say online
However, the judge ultimately decided that Donegan – whose Twitter bio says she is currently a gender and politics columnist at The Guardian U.S.- hadn’t provided enough evidence to prove she is entitled to use the Communications Decency Act to block the suit.
‘Unfortunately, Defendant offers no authority for this proposition and the court has found none,’ DeArcy Hall wrote in the 17-page order.
She cited Donegan’s testimony and ‘vague recollections’ of the events surrounding the list as evidence for her ruling.
‘Rather than providing facts regarding her communications with respect to the Spreadsheet, Defendant’s testimony simply highlights that she does not recall what she said or wrote to others regarding the Spreadsheet,’ DeArcy Hall wrote.
In a 17-page order obtained by DailyMail.com, the judge argued Donegan’s testimony and ‘vague’ recollections about the document did not ‘rule out the possibility’ that she encouraged others to make posts that broke the law
The judge also argued that Donegan hadn’t provided enough evidence to prove she is entitled to use the Communications Decency Act to block the suit
‘Defendant’s inability to recall the contents of her communications leaves open the possibility that Defendant did specifically encourage the posting of unlawful content.’
One of Elliott’s attorneys, Andrew Miltenberg, issued a statement to DailyMail.com Friday night, reading: ‘Allowing this lawsuit to move forward is critical for due process and the Constitutional right for the accused to face their accusers, particularly at a time in the MeToo era when online, anonymous accusations are being made with impunity, destroying reputations and careers.
‘Judge DeArcy Hall’s decision today shows that Section 230 is not an acceptable defense for being the ring-leader of broad-based online character assassinations.Moreover, the fact that Ms. Donegan deleted her “Sh***y Media Men” spreadsheet and the majority of her related communications – the primary evidence in this case – is revealing.’
Another one of Elliott’s lawyers, Nick Lewis, told
Neil and proved they were the friendliest of exes as they made a joint appearance on Friday’s Lorraine ahead of the Strictly Professionals tour.
Dancers Neil, 39, and Katya, 32, were getting on well on the show where Katya said: ‘there’s still friendship there’ and told how their bond is built on ‘respect and teamwork’.
The pair were married for six years and split in 2019 following Katya and Seann Walsh’s kissing scandal – although they insisted that had nothing to do with the end of their marriage.
Working well: Neil and Katya Jones proved they were the friendliest of exes as they made a joint appearance on Friday’s Lorraine ahead of the Strictly Professionals tour
However, the pair have remained close since the collapse of their marriage and subsequent divorce – hanging out together and even posting snaps of each other online as well as working on Strictly together.
Neil said on the show about working with Katya: ‘We’ve known each other for so long now and I’m the only person that can get her to be quiet in rehearsals!’
Katya then added: ‘He can’t play poker when I’m at the table I read his face so well!
Happy: Dancers Neil, 39, and Katya, 32, were getting on well on the show where Katya said: ‘there’s still friendship there’ and told how their bond is built on ‘respect and teamwork’
‘It’s lovely because our relationships started 13 years ago from respect and teamwork and then romance came as a bonus if you break down that layer there’s still friendships there.I just love your mum too much!’
They appeared on the daytime TV show alongside fellow pro Gorka Marquez where they discussed the upcoming tour.
Katya explained: ‘The live tour we’ve just finished they include the celebrities and this is just the professionals look at the line up.
Having fun: They appeared on the daytime TV show alongside fellow pro Gorka Marquez where they discussed the upcoming tour
You get to meet the newbies like Kai (Widdrington) but also the longest standing one Karen. We get to interact with the audience more.’
Gorka – who is dating Gemma Atkinson and shares a daughter Mia with her – added of the tour: ‘We try to be perfectionists we’re always trying to improve it, there is always room for improvement.
‘It’s difficult being away from them because we’re just been on holiday doing fun stuff and not I don’t see them for 2 weeks.
‘Mia came to watch me perform with Karen and there is a number where it all goes quiet and the whole theatre was silent and I could hear her saying ‘papa’.I just wanted to cry it was beautiful.’
Oh dear: The pair were married for six years and split in 2019 following Katya and Seann Walsh’s kissing scandal – although they insisted that had nothing to do with the end of their marriage
It comes after earlier this week Seann claimed he and his partner were offered £250,000 to star in a porn film.
The comedian, 36, said the pair were offered the huge sum to romp on camera after they were photographed kissing each other outside a pub during the show in 2018.
Seann was in a relationship with actress Rebecca Humphries at the time while Katya was married to Neil.
Speaking in his new comedy special Seann Walsh: Kiss, the comedian said: ‘Television X, The gay porn channel, remember that?Offered me £250,000 to do a porn film with Katya! But she said no!’
Seann detailed the abuse he recevied from the public after the kiss became public.
He said: ‘I was dubbed the most hated comedian in the country.The most hated comedian in the country!
‘Only I could go on Strictly Come Dancing and come out the most hated comedian in the country. What a f*****g c**t.’
Seann added that when he agreed to do the show, he was hoping to follow in the footsteps of other comedians like Susan Calman and Chris Ramsey.
He said: ‘Susan Calman, been on the year before – went on to have her own TV shows.
‘Chris Ramsey, did it the year after – number one podcast in the country!People dressed up as me for Halloween!’
Detailing some of the fall out from the scandal, Seann added: ‘I had to move into a hotel for two weeks because the reporters were waiting outside my house, rummaging through my bins, they even turned up at my parents’ house.And s**t themselves when my dad answered.’
He added: ‘My Twitter went bats**t. Thousands and thousands of people telling me they hate me.’
Explaining the incident, he said: ‘I was in a relationship, my dance partner Katya was married.
‘After training we went for a drink, one thing led to another and we were photographed kissing outside a pub.
‘Awful, I know.It’s awful – I’m sorry. I’m still sorry now.’
Following the incident, Seann’s actress girlfriend Rebecca Humphries released an impassioned statement in which she revealed he called her ‘psycho’ and ‘nuts’ for questioning his friendship with Katya, who he kissed on Rebecca’s birthday.
While Katya was supported by her husband Neil after the ‘drunken mistake’, their marriage did not last as they announced their split in August 2019.
The dancers confirmed they were splitting in joint Instagram statements, but despite writing they had mutual ‘respect’ and ‘love’, a source claimed Katya’s infidelity was something her husband couldn’t get over.
The voted 53-47 on Thursday to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, with three Republicans voting with all .
Jackson, a 51 year-old federal appeals court judge, will be the first black woman on the high court and the third black justice.
Her confirmation vote was not nearly as bipartisan as that of the justice she’d been chosen to replace, Stephen Breyer, and others. But still, President Biden can tout a bipartisan win thanks to yes votes from Sens.
Mitt Romney, Utah, xhamster Susan Collins, Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, Alaska.
Vice President presided over the Senate and banged the gavel to declare the final vote count and seal Jackson’s confirmation, as Democrats throughout the Senate chamber broke out in raucous applause.
President Biden watched the vote tally come in with Jackson in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.Photos showed them holding hands and excitedly hugging as enough votes came in to confirm Jackson’s nomination.
Breyer, 83, had come under intense pressure from progressives to retire while Democrats still hold the White House, House and Senate and let someone younger step in.
Jackson joins two other Democrat-appointed justices, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, on the 6-3 conservative-dominated court.She will be sworn in during the summer recess, when Breyer officially steps down.
President Biden watched the vote tally come in with Jackson in the Roosevelt Room of the White House
Biden had promised to put a black woman on the Supreme Court.Jackson will now be the first black woman to sit on the high court
After 99 senators had voted, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., held up the vote when he was nowhere to be found on the Senate floor.After about 30 minutes he finally showed up to cast his ‘no’ vote. Paul, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., had to cast their ‘no’ vote from the cloakroom because they did not wear a tie. Senate dress code requirements require a jacket and tie for men.
Seated in the front row of the VIP gallery was Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.Members of the White House ‘sherpa’ team were also in the gallery, along with Democratic commentator Donna Brazille and at least 17 members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
President Biden’s designated sherpa, former Alabama Democrat Sen. Doug Jones, was standing in the back of the chamber.The sherpa guides a Supreme Court nominee through the interviews and hearings that make up the confirmation process.
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee aggressively interrogated Jackson over her sentencing record, arguing that Jackson had offered lenient sentences, particularly to child porn offenders.Some went after her record defending Guantanamo Bay detainees as a public defender, at which time she called President George W. Bush a ‘war criminal.’
Other Republicans cited her refusal to offer a judicial philosophy and her refusal to weigh in on issues like court packing and the definition of a ‘woman’ as reason to vote no.
Biden and Jackson excitedly hugged as the vote tally came in to confirm his nominee to the high court
Biden took a break from watching the Senate confirm his nominee’s position on the bench to take a selfie
The President then posted the result of the selfie on Twitter and called her confirmation a ‘historic’ day for the U.S.
Harris told reporters after the vote: ‘I’m overjoyed, deeply moved.You know, there’s so much about what’s happening in the world now that is presenting some of the worst of this moment and human behaviors. And then we have a moment like this that I think reminds us that there is still so much yet to accomplish and that we can accomplish, including a day like today that is so historic and so important, for so many reasons.’
‘I do believe is a very important statement about who we are as a nation, that we have just made a decision to put this extraordinary jurist on the highest court of our land.It’s a good statement about who we are.’
Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., praised Jackson ahead of the vote and touted that she would be the first justice with experience as a public defender.
‘As I’ve said over and over again, there are three words that I think best fit Judge Jackson: brilliant, beloved, belongs.’ He called Jackson ‘one of the most experienced individuals ever nominated to the Supreme Court.’
‘There is no question: The country, by and large, wants the Senate to confirm Judge Jackson.’
Harris, who presided over the vote, told reporters: ‘I’m overjoyed, deeply moved.You know, there’s so much about what’s happening in the world now that is presenting some of the worst of this moment and human behaviors’
Democrats broke out into raucous applause after Jackson was confirmed.Sen. Mitt Romney is seen above applauding alone on the Republican side – he was one of only three GOP senators to vote for Jackson’s confirmation
Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., praised Jackson ahead of the vote and touted that she would be the first justice with experience as a public defender
GOP leader Mitch McConnell said that Biden had set out to nominate a ‘judicial activist’ and Jackson checked off that box.
‘Today the far left will get the Supreme Court justice they want,’ the Kentucky Republican said on the Senate floor.’As a violent crime wave sweeps America, Democrats are pursuing a nationwide campaign to make the justice system softer on crime.’
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in a press conference ahead of the vote said he believed Jackson would be ‘the furthest left justice to have ever served on the Supreme Court.Cruz and Jackson were schoolmates at Harvard Law.
‘There is no area of law where her record is more extreme than in criminal law,’ Cruz added.
Jackson throughout the hearing repeatedly reiterated that she would rule with impartiality and would not ‘legislate from the bench’ as some have predicted.
First Lady Jill Biden talked about Jackson’s family’s pride after she was confirmed to the Supreme Court
Jackson, a 51 year-old federal appeals court judge, will be the first black woman on the high court and the third black justice
‘I have been a judge for nearly a decade now, and I take that responsibility and my duty to be independent very seriously,’ Jackson said.’I decide cases from a neutral posture. I evaluate the facts, and I interpret and apply the law to the facts of the case before me, without fear or favor, consistent with my judicial oath.’
In addition to her nine years on the federal bench, Jackson has worked both as a public defender and at a private law firm and served on the U.S.Sentencing Commission. She also clerked for Breyer. Jackson was confirmed to the D.C. circuit just last June.
‘Can you define the word ”woman”?’ Sen. Marsha Blackburn had asked Jackson in one viral moment of the Judiciary Committee hearings.
‘Can I provide a definition?’ Jackson responded.
‘No, I can’t,’ she declared, before adding: ‘I’m not a biologist.’
And of Jackson’s 100 sentencings over eight years as a trial judge, Republicans focused in on eight child porn cases where they viewed her sentences to be too lenient.In these cases, the sentences she offered were far short of what federal sentencing guidelines would dictate and what prosecutors sought.
Jackson implied that in the age of the internet, some child porn sentences needed to be lighter than others because of ease of access.
‘With one click you can receive, you can distribute tens of thousands.’
‘You can be doing this for 15 minutes and all of a sudden, you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years in prison,’ she said.
‘Good!Good! Absolutely, good! I hope you are!’ Graham shouted back.
‘I hope you go to jail for 50 years if you’re on the internet trolling for images of children and sexual exploitation,’ he said.
‘I think the best way to deter people from getting on a computer and viewing thousands and hundred – and over time maybe millions, the population as a whole – of children being exploited and abused every time somebody clicks on is to put their a** in jail,’ he offered.’Not supervise their computer usage.’
Murkowski on Thursday lauded the judge’s ‘grace’ throughout the attacks by her colleagues. ‘Think about the kind of the strength under fire that we saw with this nominee, a level temperament that I think was very clear, you saw what I would call grace under pressure,’ she told reporters after the vote.
