Mr. Booker said that the nominee was “getting attacks that were roundly criticized, even by people on the right, as being beyond the pale,” adding that the hearings came as a reminder of a "familiar hurt."
Cory Booker: Ketanji Brown Jackson grilling by Senate Republicans 'not about racism'
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"For over three decades, unjust, baseless and unscientific sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine have contributed to the explosion of mass incarceration in the United States and disproportionately impacted poor people, Black and Brown people, and people fighting mental illness,” said Sen. Cory A. Booker, New Jersey Democrat.
Schumer joins bipartisan push to cut federal prison time for nearly 7,800 crack cocaine traffickers
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