“It’s Hawley, right? Take that for what it’s worth.”

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) appeared unmoved by the allegations from some of his conservative colleagues, whose comments have sometimes glossed over particular context, like the fact that in some of the cases it was prosecutors who initially recommended sentences lower than the sentencing guidelines.

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“It struck me that it was off course, meaning the attacks were off course that came from some,” Romney said in a brief interview on Tuesday. “And there is no ‘there’ there.”…

Meanwhile, Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), who has sunk other Biden nominees but has voiced no concerns about Jackson, was dismissive of the material that Hawley and some other Republicans raised.

“It’s Hawley, right?” Manchin said to reporters. “Take that for what it’s worth.”

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