The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to take up Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination vote, overcoming a key hurdle in the drive to confirmation this week.
Earlier on Monday, the panel was deadlocked, 11-11, on whether to send Jackson’s nomination to the Senate floor, but Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney announced Monday night they will vote to confirm Jackson’s historic elevation to the Supreme Court. The extra votes gave President Joe Biden's nominee a burst of bipartisan support and all but assuring she'll become the first Black female justice.
Jackson previously faced more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation over her record last month. Democrats — and at least one Republican — have cited her deep experience in her nine years on the federal bench and the chance for her to become the first former public defender on the court. The Senate panel’s top Republican, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, said he was opposing Jackson’s nomination because "she and I have fundamental, different views on the role of judges and the role that they should play in our system of government."
Republicans on the Judiciary panel continued their push Monday to paint Jackson as soft on crime, defending their repeated questions about her sentencing on sex crimes. Responding to Sen. Dick Durbin, the Judiciary Committee chairman who preemptively brought up concerns previously raised by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Jackson pushed back on the notion that her rulings could have endangered children.
Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Miami. She has said that her parents, Johnny and Ellery Brown, chose her name to express their pride in her family’s African ancestry. They asked an aunt who was in the Peace Corps in Africa at the time to send a list of African girls’ names and they picked Ketanji Onyika, which they were told meant "lovely one."
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