Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will inch closer to the Supreme Court on Monday when the Senate Judiciary Committee meets to review her nomination after a week of tense hearings.
Despite the long odds, conservative activists haven't given up on scuttling Jackson's nomination or at least tilting the politics in their favor. Mike Davis, a former chief nominations counsel for Senate Republicans, said his group, the Article III Project, plans to run digital ads in West Virginia, Arizona, Georgia and other states highlighting Jackson's sentencing record in child pornography cases.
Not long afterward, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., posted a Twitter thread that turned heads. The blowback was quick, with the White House and fact checkers noting that Jackson's sentencing practices were within the mainstream and conservative former prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthyStill, Davis said, voters will judge the"lenient" punishments.
Davis argued that Jackson's confirmation would have one upside for Republicans. She wouldn't, in his view, be able to"pick off two conservative justices and eke out liberal victories" from time to time on the 6-3 court. By contrast, he said, California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger, a finalist for the nomination, whom he compared to Justice Elena Kagan, would have been more able to entice a couple of conservatives to join more moderate rulings.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that Jackson is “an extraordinarily magnificent judge” and praised her temperament, grit and endurance.
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