Senate advances Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination after committee deadlocks

Senate Democrats aim to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, pictured during last month’s confirmation hearings, by the end of this week. The Senate on Monday advanced the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee. Murkowski, who is up for reelection this year and faces a primary challenger backed by former President Trump, said her support rested on Jackson’s unquestionable qualifications and “my rejection of the corrosive politicization of the review process for Supreme Court nominees, which, on both sides of the aisle, is growing worse and more detached from reality by the year.” Romney said he had concluded that Jackson “is a well-qualified jurist and a person of honor” who “more than meets the standard of excellence and integrity.” Earlier in the day, however, partisan politics briefly delayed the confirmation process. In floor remarks Monday afternoon, Schumer said he would move “as quickly as possible” to “set up a final confirmation vote by the end of this week.” Although the split in committee was anticipated, the vote was delayed by a few hours when Sen. Alex Padilla had difficulties returning to Washington on Sunday. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who voted to elevate Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit less than a year ago but opposes her nomination to the Supreme Court, said “she would not have been before this committee” if Republicans were in charge of the Senate.