The split means that Senate Democrats will ask the full Senate to vote on a motion to advance Jackson's nomination from the panel, which only requires a simple majority.
The 22-member committee, composed of 11 Republicans and 11 Democrats, voted along party lines for Jackson, creating a deadlock. The split means that Senate Democrats will ask the full Senate to vote on a motion to advance Jackson's nomination from the panel, which only requires a simple majority.Jackson, 51, is expected to receive the support of every member of the Senate Democratic Caucus in the evenly divided 50-50 Senate, plus the backing of Republican Sen.
Several Republicans on the committee grilled Jackson last month over an apparent"pattern" of sentencing child sex offenders below the guidelines of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, issues first raised by GOP Sen. Josh Hawley in the days leading up to her hearings. Last week, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who voted last year to confirm Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, confirmed his opposition to her confirmation to the high court, rejecting her"record of judicial activism" and"flawed sentencing methodology.
Following Monday's procedural vote in the committee, Jackson is likely to be confirmed to the Supreme Court when a full vote for her confirmation occurs. She would succeed Breyer's post on the bench at the end of this Supreme Court term, in the summer.
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