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Talk about bad optics, Democrats objected to proposed legislation seeking to toughen the penalty for those convicted of child pornography.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., requested unanimous consent over his PROTECT Act of 2022, which sets a five-year mandatory minimum sentences for child pornography offenders, and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., rose to object, saying: ““I have to ask myself—why now?”
“The horror of child pornography is exponentially worse than it was a decade ago, and judges handing out lenient sentences for these criminals is a big reason why,” Hawley said last week, when introducing the measure. “While the White House continues to dismiss concerns about leniency toward child porn offenders as a ‘desperate conspiracy theory,’ the numbers speak for themselves. Congress must act before this problem becomes even worse.”
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