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Ketanji Brown Jackson Nomination to SCOTUS Advances as 3 GOP Senators Back Confirmation

HeadlineApr 05, 2022

The Senate has advanced the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Three Republicans joined all 50 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus in a procedural vote Monday evening that sets up a final vote on Jackson’s confirmation by the end of the week. This comes despite 11 Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voting earlier on Monday against recommending Jackson’s confirmation. Democrat Cory Booker had this response for his Republican colleagues.

Sen. Cory Booker: “How — how qualified do you have to be? Double Harvard. How qualified do you have to be? Clerking at all levels of the federal judiciary. How qualified do you have to be? Three times confirmed by the Senate in a bipartisan manner.”

Republican Senators Romney, Murkowski and Collins have joined with their Democratic colleagues in support of the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. The Senate Judiciary debate on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson came on the 54th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. If confirmed, Judge Jackson will become the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice.

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