Efforts by some Republican senators to paint U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as “soft on crime” appeared to fail Tuesday as Jackson parried a series of questions relating to her representation of Guantanamo detainees and her sentencing of child pornography defendants.

Committee members during the second day of her confirmation hearing settled into the “meat and potatoes” of the process by asking questions on stare decisis, substantive due process, judicial philosophy, the commerce clause, textualism, same-sex marriage and religious rights.

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