Republican Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney joined their Democratic colleagues in supporting Jackson
The Senate voted to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the newest member of the United States Supreme Court on Thursday, delivering on President Joe Biden’s vow to successfully nominate the first Black female associate justice in the court’s history.
The confirmation of a judge whose nomination has received broad public support nevertheless came through by a narrow vote ofa tally cut almost entirely along party lines and nearly matching the vote margins of much more controversial nominees. Republican Sens. Susan Collins , Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney joined their Democratic colleagues in supporting Jackson.
Jackson, who held the same seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia once occupied by Attorney General Merrick Garland, was long seen asfor first vacancy on the court under Biden.
Her most recent confirmation before being named to the Supreme Court, however, cut along narrow partisan lines, a preview of the battle to come for her lifetime appointment on the nation’s highest court. Jackson, who was nominated to replacein February following the announcement of his retirement at the end of the court’s current term, will not alter the ideological makeup of a Supreme Court that is widely dominated by conservative justices.
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