Three Republican senators — Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — have all voted to confirm at least 60 percent of Biden’s judges since his term began.
President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee doesn’t need Republican votes to be confirmed. And this past year’s judicial confirmations suggest she’s unlikely to get many.
Conservative hard-liner Sen. Josh Hawley , who hasn’t supported any of Biden’s judicial picks, said in an interview that he’s not making a judgment call yet on the unnamed nominee. But he added that if Biden “goes down the path he has been going” on judicial nominees, he’ll have trouble getting Republican votes.
Nan Aron, founder of the liberal advocacy group Alliance for Justice, estimated the odds that those three Republicans support Biden’s pick at “more likely than not, but not a guarantee.” Graham, a member of the committee, has voted to move forward on 48 Biden judges, by far the highest rate of approval. Graham is followed by Sen. Thom Tillis , who has agreed to move forward on 25 judges, and top Judiciary Committee Republican Chuck Grassley , who supported advancing 20. By contrast, Hawley, along with Sens. Ben Sasse and Ted Cruz , has supported none.
Nevertheless, the fact that Murkowski, Collins and Graham were the only three Republicans to vote yes on the floor for the circuit nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is prompting speculation about whether they’d support her for the high court; Jackson remains a frontrunner for Biden's nod.
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