The moderate Utah senator says he is carefully weighing her Supreme Court nomination. Some of her supporters are touting her views on religious freedom.
“Some colleagues on my side of the aisle, I thought, asked respectful questions, and were able to elicit responses from her that I think were very helpful to those that are making an evaluation,” Romney said. But he added, “I thought some were preparing for their presidential campaign and were, if you will, doing the things you have to do to get on TV, which I think is unfortunate.”
Griffith formally introduced Jackson at her confirmation hearing. “I have always respected her careful approach, extraordinary judicial understanding, and collegial manner, three indispensable traits for success as a Justice on the Supreme Court,” Griffith wrote in a letter to the Judiciary Committee almost immediately after Jackson’s nomination.
, though he does not sit on the Judiciary Committee and does not have a long history of voting for Supreme Court nominees. Elected to the Senate in 2018, Romney has voted on just one Supreme Court pick, supporting President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett in October 2020.In the call with Biden, Romney said, he urged the president to select a nominee in the mold of Breyer, who was known as a consensus-builder despite his reliably liberal positions.
Romney may have to disclose which way he’s leaning as early as Monday, when the Senate votes on Schumer’s procedural measure to bring Jackson’s nomination to the floor. Although some senators have voted differently on procedural and final confirmation votes, Romney generally has not.
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