Graham: If GOP controlled the Senate, Ketanji Brown Jackson wouldn’t get a hearing
said the quiet part out loud on Monday when he declared that President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee wouldn’t get a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee if Republicans held the majority.
Prior to the committee’s vote to advance the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Graham explained why he is now against her nomination despite previously voting to confirm her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. “Now that you’re talking about Supreme Court, you’re making policy not just bound by it,” he said, adding that Jackson is an “activist to the core” who’s been embraced by the most “radical people in the Democratic movement.
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