Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that he hasn’t decided whether he will vote to confirm Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that he hasn’t decided whether he will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson — President Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court — saying he was troubled by her refusal to object to expanding the nine-justice court.
The Republican leader pointed out how Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, whom Jackson would replace if confirmed, have objected to packing the court as some“Typically, these Supreme Court nominees of both parties have never answered any of the questions.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was among three Republicans who voted for Jackson last year, along with Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, when she “She is endorsed by so many leading law enforcement organizations in the country and attempts to smear or discredit her history and her work are not borne out in facts,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
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