Sen. Tom Cotton doesn't understand the law

Cotton said: “You know, the last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg and prosecute the Nazis,” Cotton said, referring to Robert Jackson, who was appointed by President Harry Truman to lead cases against German war criminals at the trials. “This Judge Jackson may have gone there to defend them.”

That's how a fair criminal justice system works. The defendant is considered innocent until proven guilty, and is entitled to an attorney.

But it's worse:

Cotton: "“No, John, again, in three separate cases, she was representing not American citizens charged with a crime entitled to due process in our Constitution,” Cotton said, but “foreign terrorists who had committed acts of violence against Americans.”

See what he did there? "American citizens charged with a crime" versus "foreign terrorists who had committed acts of violence." Uh, no. That presumes facts not in evidence, counsel. IANAL, but even I know that.

To continue Cotton's analogy, the last Jackson went to prosecute; this judge Jackson may well have gone to represent the defense. On the evidence, I'd say there's every reason to believe that if he were in Germany at the time, Cotton would have been a defendant. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-tom-cotton-ketanji-brown-jackson_n_624e1fd8e4b0d8266ab4f146?fbclid=IwAR0FSmgoS-JskoLrPhrSKdjtoufedPZWcpOSgoi0g8PSmk5gP70j_Din8ic