A number of Republican lawmakers and officials quickly criticized President Joe Biden's nomination of a D.C. Circuit Court judge to the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court will be at the White House on February 25.
The Republican National Committee criticized Jackson in a statement as a radical, left-wing activist who would rubberstamp Biden's disastrous agenda and vowed to make sure voters know just how radical Jackson is.
McConnell said in a statement that he would review it carefully.
Jackson’s nomination,” but noted he had voted against her appeals court confirmation and said she “was the favored choice of far-left dark-money groups.”Lindsey Graham, who voted for Jackson's confirmation to the appeals court but publicly pushed Biden to nominate a different judge to the Supreme Court, said Friday that Jackson's nomination means the radical.
When he considered her appeals court nomination last year, Sen. Josh Hawley was troubled by aspects of her record.
Even after the GOP-controlled Senate rushed through Justice Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation in 2020, some Republicans criticized the Democrats' plan for a swift confirmation process.
The senator from Tennessee said the president was putting the demands of the radical progressive left ahead of what was best for the country when he announced Jackson's nomination.
Jackson received three GOP votes when she was confirmed to the D.C. appeals court in 2021. Before Jackson was announced as the nominee, Ted Cruz noted that she didn't have these outrageously partisan statements during her last confirmation hearing.
Graham, Collins and Murkowski will vote for Jackson again. Graham said Friday that he may not support Jackson's confirmation, while Collins said she would conduct a thorough vetting.
Jackson is likely to be confirmed by the Senate despite the GOP criticism. If all 50 Democratic senators vote for her, she can be confirmed even without Republican support. Jackson's appointment will not change the ideological makeup of the court and the potential poor optics of opposing a Black woman being appointed to the court is not likely to be a problem for Republican leadership.
The president promised to name the first Black woman to the Supreme Court if Biden nominated Jackson. The Republican attacks started even before Jackson was announced as Biden's pick, with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki slamming Republicans in January for "obliterating their own credibility" by attacking the still-unnamed nominee. Brown was confirmed to the D.C. Circuit Court last year after serving as a federal district judge in Washington, D.C., as well as as a public defender. Jackson hasn't really issued rulings on hot-button political topics like abortion while on the federal bench, but has been criticized on the right for having the support of left-wing judicial activist organization Demand Justice. Jackson ruled in favor of the House in its inquiry into Russian election interference, stating that presidents are not kings.
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