Analysis: 4 takeaways from Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing
Graham also bemoaned the fact that President Biden hadn’t selected his preferred candidate, District Judge J. Michelle Childs of South Carolina, whom he said would have gotten 60 votes in the Senate. He even seemed to take umbrage at the scrutiny of Childs’s record on labor unions, when she was a contender alongside Jackson.
The others who voted for Jackson last time — Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins — are not members of the Judiciary Committee, but they’ve indicated that their votes last year don’t mean they’ll support her again. Were all Republicans to vote against Jackson, she could be the first Supreme Court nomineeSupreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered her opening remarks during the first day of her confirmation proceedings on March 21.
, though virtually none of them raised such concerns when Donald Trump promised to appoint a woman two years ago — for obvious reasons — and early Monday at least, it was largely unspoken.
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