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Votes Secured In Order To Confirm Jackson To Supreme Court
The Washington Post: Senate Puts Jackson On Clear Track For Supreme Court Confirmation
The Senate put Ketanji Brown Jackson on a clear track to be confirmed later this week as the Supreme Court’s 116th justice — and its first Black woman — after three Republicans joined Democrats to advance her nomination in a Monday vote. Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah become the second and third Republicans to announce support for Jackson, joining Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who publicly backed the judge last month. (DeBonis and Kim, 4/4)
NPR: 2 More Republicans Say They'll Vote To Confirm Jackson's Supreme Court Nomination
Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney announced Monday evening they'll vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court. All 50 Senate Democrats, including the two independents who caucus with them, are expected to vote for Jackson's confirmation. GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine announced last week that she would vote to confirm Jackson, giving her more than enough support to be approved for a lifetime appointment on the nation's highest court. She will be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, if confirmed. The Senate Judiciary Committee reached an 11-11 tie along party lines on Jackson's nomination earlier Monday. (McDaniel and Snell, 4/4)
CNN: Jackson's Confirmation Proceedings Show That Historically Partisan Supreme Court Fights Are The New Normal
The legal stakes around Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation may be lower than they have been in the past decade of Supreme Court fights. But that did little to defuse the partisan atmosphere that has now come to define nominations to America’s highest bench. Jackson’s final vote on the Senate floor later this week will be among the closest in Supreme Court history, even if her confirmation was never truly in doubt. Much of the committee proceedings around her nomination were focused on the fights around prior nominees and which party should be blamed for politicizing the Supreme Court confirmation process. (Sneed, 5/5)
