Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Clears Major Hurdle On Way To Supreme Court Confirmation
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is slated to be confirmed as the first Black woman Supreme Court justice this week, following the Senate Judiciary Committee’s split vote on Monday (April 4) over the advancement of her nomination.
“After multiple in-depth conversations with Judge Jackson and deliberative review of her record and recent hearings, I will support her historic nomination to be an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court,” Murkowski said in a statement, according to The Hill.
Romney said he concluded that Jackson was “a well-qualified jurist and a person of honor.”
“While I do not expect to agree with every decision she may make on the Court, I believe that she more than meets the standard of excellence and integrity,” he added.
Jackson currently sits on DC’s federal appellate court and had been considered the front-runner for the vacant Supreme Court seat after Justice Stephen Breyer, who she clerked for, announced his retirement.
Next up for Judge Jackson is her confirmation vote, which is expected to come as early as Thursday.
Monday’s bipartisan procedural vote was a counterpoint to the bitter partisan debate over Judge Jackson, during which Republicans on the judiciary panel attacked her as a liberal partisan with a questionable record while glossing over her qualifications and experience in hearings that featured accusations of leniency toward child sexual abusers and divisive questions over how she would define the word “woman.”
