U.S. Sen. Rob Portman says he hasn’t yet decided whether he’ll vote to approve her ascent to the nation’s highest court. If Jackson is confirmed, she’d be the court’s first African American female justice.
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. WASHINGTON, D. C. -- After meeting last week with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, confirming her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit., says he’s continuing to look into her record and is following her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In an interview with Ohio reporters, the Ohio Republican said he’ll listen to Jackson’s answers to questions at this week’s committee hearings before he decides on a vote. He says he prefers judges who aren’t judicial activists and says he wants to learn her views on court packing and whether the number of justices on the Supreme Court should expand from the current nine.have floated legislation to expand the number of justices.
“We talked about judicial activism, and my concern about that,” Portman recounted. “We talked about her experiences as a judge. We talked about court packing and talked about some specific regulatory issues where the court may be asked to opine. This is an area I’ve spent a lot of time on, ensuring that the agencies defer to the legislative branch and not write their own rules. So, it was a good conversation.
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