The Senate GOP leader said he took issue with Ketanji Brown Jackson’s responses this week during her confirmation hearing.
's nomination to the Supreme Court, citing her responses this week to questions about"court packing."
“I went into the Senate process with an open mind, but after studying the nominee’s record and watching her performance this week, I cannot and will not support Judge Jackson for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court,” McConnell, R-Ky, said on the Senate floor. McConnell suggested in his remarks that he thought Jackson would be an activist judge, and faulted her for not taking a position on “Judge Jackson refuses to reject the fringe position that Democrats should try to pack the Supreme Court,” McConnell said, adding that the question should have been “an easy softball” for her, “but it wasn’t.”
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