After trying for years to match the GOP’s off-the-Hill judicial firepower, Democrats are distancing themselves from a prominent outside group backing Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
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“Remind me who they are again?” asked Sen. Tim Kaine “I can see why Republicans would want to try to create some big bad wolf, but they’re not that big and they’re not that bad. And I don’t think that they’re wolves.” “It’s obviously hypocritical for [Republicans] to complain about advocacy groups on the left when all we’re trying to do is catch up to the network of groups that have long been active on the right for the last 40 years,” Fallon said in an interview. “But I don’t think it’s successfully done anything to derail or put into question the confirmation prospects for any of the Biden nominees over the last year including Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Fallon said the group’s support for Jackson is motivated by a broader push for Democrats to prioritize judicial nominees with diverse professional backgrounds, including public defenders. Durbin suggested Monday that Democrats were ready to counter Republican attacks, telling Jackson “there may be others who allege that you are before us today as the product of a campaign led by dark money groups. ... Your record — and the process that led to your nomination — belie such claims.”
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