Ketanji Brown Jackson Had a Major Hand in ‘Pizzagate’ Trial By for Western Journalism
In a rather interesting twist to the closely watched nomination of Judge Ketanji Jackson Brown to the U.S. Supreme Court, it turns out that President Joe Biden’s pick for the high court happened to be the judge on a case involving a man who shot up the Washington D.C. pizzeria implicated by “Pizzagate” conspiracy theories.
Pizzagate arose in 2016, in the days leading up to the historic political standoff between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It posited, based on allegedly covert language found among thousands of leaked emails, that Clinton and her Deep State cronies were involved in high-level child sex trafficking which involved the use of the restaurant Comet Ping Pong in Washington.
Jackson presided over the trial for Edgar Maddison Welch, who stormed the eatery with an AR-15 and a handgun. Considering Jackson’s lengthy professional history of advocating for lenient sentencing for child pornography offenders, this is certainly the sort of stuff that fuels Pizzagate-type conspiracy theories.
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Jackson — who will likely be confirmed thanks to swing-voting Senate Democrat Joe Manchin of Virginia, who said on Friday he would issue a yea for the Biden nominee — was selected out of a pool of black female judges, as this was the president’s primary criteria for his pick.
So her confirmation hearing has largely been covered in a predictable manner. The mainstream media have been dotted with indignant op-eds arguing that the GOP’s concerns over Jackson’s history are unfounded.
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley first drew attention to her history ahead of the hearing, highlighting, among other things, her pattern of handing down sentences to child pornography convicts well below the recommended minimum sentence.
It’s worthy of note that, while sentencing the Pizzagate shooter, she did say that Welch may have thought when he stormed Comet Ping Pong that he was “being helpful.” However, she said she could not “overstate” her concern that “other people will see what you have done and be inspired by it.”
“No matter how well-intentioned, people are not allowed to take matters into their own hands,” she said, as ABC News reported at the time.
