.LeaderMcConnell said Thursday he would not support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
"I cannot and will not support Judge Jackson for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court,” McConnell said in remarks on the Senate floor.McConnell argued Jackson was not prepared to answer questions on her judicial record or philosophy, arguing her record was more sparse than previous nominees.
“The most radical pro-court packing fringe groups badly wanted this nominee for this vacancy,” McConnell said. “Judge Jackson was the court packer’s pick, and she testified like it.” “The judge regularly gave certain terrible kinds of criminals light sentencing guidelines,” McConnell said, repeating Republican arguments that Jackson's sentences for child pornography offenders as a trial judge were lenient. Jackson said her sentences were within legal norms and guidelines that judges must consider as a matter of law.“Nothing we saw this week convinced me that either President Biden or Judge Jackson’s deeply invested far-left fan club have misjudged her,” he said.
Sen. Dick Durbin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, later delivered remarks pushing back on McConnell, arguing Jackson delivered an appropriate response to questions about court packing, saying it was the role of other branches of government to determine.
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