Re: Democrat sex offender Dick Durbin.

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) went to the Senate Floor today to 
call for unanimous consent to pass his PROTECT Act of 2022, which 
protects children from sexual exploitation by enhancing the 
penalties for possessing child pornography and preventing judges 
from sentencing offenders below federal guidelines. Senator Dick 
Durbin (D-Ill.) objected and blocked the bill from passing.

Senator Durbin, with support from Senators Feinstein (D-Calif.) and 
Schumer (D-N.Y.), passed similar legislation in 2003. The PROTECT 
Act worked. But the Supreme Court gutted it in 2005, in a 
controversial 5-4 decision called United States v. Booker, allowing 
judges like Ketanji Brown Jackson the ability to impose lenient 
sentences on child porn offenders.