As Supreme Court hearings go, Ketanji Brown Jackson’s has been mundane so far. There have been no false accusations of gang rape and partisan senators have not read excerpts from her yearbook. Instead, Republicans have stuck to substantive questions, hitting KBJ on her record and her legal philosophy.

But even that was a bridge too far for her supporters. Apparently, they expected complete subservience to and lavish praise of their nominee. You know, the exact opposite of how Democrats treated Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

Thus, the talking points went forth, with one of them centering on Sen. Josh Hawley’s concern over KBJ going easy on those who traffic in child pornography. While Hawley’s approach was fair and stayed in the lane of relevance to her record, the White House threw out talking points claiming that he had previously voted for three judges with the same philosophy on sentencing pedophiles.