AG Marshall testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee hearing of Supreme Court nominee

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WBMA) — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall was scheduled to offer his testimony Thursday, March 24 before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

During his testimony, AG Marshall's office said he expressed particular concern about the "left's efforts to downplay violent crime while also claiming that the justice system is “broken” and “biased.”"

“Upon the President’s announcement of Judge Jackson’s nomination, one supporter—the executive director of an influential progressive group that supports ‘defund[ing] the police’—pronounced:

‘We’re in a moment where there has been an active movement to reform our broken criminal-justice system. . . . This appointment signals the administration’s commitment to pursuing criminal-justice reform at the highest level.’

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“Though I strongly disagree with his assessment that our criminal-justice system is ‘broken,’ I share his observation that this appointment may well be intended by this Administration to initiate a transformation of our criminal-justice system—or, as Judge Jackson has described it, a ‘fundamental redesign’ of the system. As we know from history, the United States Supreme Court can absolutely transform criminal justice—for better or for worse.

“The Senate must now do its due diligence to ensure that the ideology of the anti-incarceration and anti-police movement—views that the Biden Administration has increasingly embraced—is never permitted to make its way onto the Supreme Court.”

“I have heard nothing this week to alleviate my fear that Judge Jackson believes that a ‘fundamental redesign’ is indeed needed in our criminal-justice system and that she would be inclined to use her position on the Court to this end. For this reason, I respectfully oppose her nomination.”

The hearing is scheduled to begin at 8:00 a.m.

The full schedule of witnesses and a link to video coverage of the hearing appears on the committee website here.