During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Republican senators excoriated her as weak on law enforcement, sometimes by making misleading statements about her sentencing of child pornography offenders and the release of jail inmates.
None of the senators accused Jackson of wanting to defund the police or to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But that was the attack made by Mick McGuire, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona.
In an ad posted on Facebook and Instagram on March 24, the final day of the hearings, McGuire shared excerpts of an interview he did two days earlier on Fox Business.
McGuire claimed that Jackson has "a weak record — defund police, abolish ICE and now a completely open border policy."
That line of attack is one that we’ve fact-checked several times, usually deployed by Republican candidates for public office against their Democratic contenders.
McGuire, the former head of the Arizona National Guard also called Jackson part of the "radical left," a common theme in campaign ads on social media and among Republicans.
We found no evidence that Jackson has a record on defunding the police, abolishing ICE or supporting a completely open border — positions that undoubtedly would have drawn sharp criticism during the hearings.
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