THIS JUST IN – Senator Susan Collins of Maine is the first Republican to indicate that she will vote in support for Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court of the United States, reports the New York Times.
The SCOTUS candidate met on Tuesday with the senator from Maine and is said to have impressed her and “alleviated any concerns she may have had with her.”
Collins’ vote would enable president Biden to claim some sort of bi-partisan support for his first candidate for the highest court.
It is unclear whether other Republican senators would follow suit, but it is noteworthy that nine months ago, ,three Republican senators including Collins voted for Ketamji Brown Jackson to sit on the US Court of Appeals.
Senator also voted for Brown Jackson for the US Court of Appeals although he now indicates that he will not vote for her onto the Supreme Court.
Other Republican senators who could also vote for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson includes Utah’s Mitt Romney and North Carolina’s Tom Tillis, who was the friendliest of the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee during her hearings.
The absence of any Republican vote would not have denied Ketanji Brown Jackson her ascension onto the Supreme Court because all fifty democratic senators would have voted for her against no votes from the Republicans, which would have needed the vote of Vice President Kamala Harris to break the tie in her role as President of the Senate
Ketanji Brown Jackson would be the first ever African American woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)
DNT News, Washington.
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