Democrats push toward vote on Jackson for Supreme Court
Source: Associated Press
Democrats push toward vote on Jackson for Supreme Court
By MARY CLARE JALONICK
March 28, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Judiciary Committee is pushing Ketanji Brown Jackson closer to confirmation, setting up a vote next week to recommend her nomination to the full Senate and seat her as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
Jackson appears to be on a glidepath to confirmation by mid-April, even if she doesnt receive the bipartisan votes that President Joe Biden has sought. Democrats can confirm her without one Republican vote in the 50-50 Senate, as long as every Democrat supports her. Vice President Kamala Harris can break a tie.
At a brief meeting on Monday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin set the committee vote for April 4 and praised Jacksons answers during four days of hearings last week that often grew contentious. Republicans on the committee led by several senators who are eyeing presidential runs spent much of the hearings focused on her sentencing decisions in a handful of child pornography cases during her nine years as a federal judge in an effort to paint her as too lenient on the criminals.
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