Eight months after voting to confirm her appointment to the federal bench, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court a victory for the “radical Left.”
The White House announced Friday morning that President Biden was
selecting Jackson, 51, to fill the seat of Justice Stephen Breyer, who is retiring from the court. If confirmed, Jackson would become the first
Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
Graham voted to confirm Jackson to her current position on the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit just last summer. Graham
was one of three Republicans to support her, along with Sens. Susan
Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
“If media reports are accurate, and Judge Jackson has been chosen as the Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Breyer, it means the radical Left has won President Biden over yet again,” Graham posted on Twitter on
Friday morning. “The attacks by the Left on Judge Childs from South Carolina apparently worked.”
Graham and Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., had been urging Biden to select J. Michelle Childs, who is also Black, a federal judge in his home state of South Carolina. In the past few weeks, Graham has made the case that
Childs would get the most bipartisan support. However, many progressives
and labor leaders had argued against her selection, on the grounds that
she had worked at a corporate law firm representing management in cases involving discrimination and labor law violations.
Graham told ABC News earlier this month that he felt Childs would get the most Republican votes, after strongly endorsing her in an interview with
CBS News last month in which he said he “couldn’t think of a better person” for the role.
In a statement Friday morning, the White House said, “Judge Jackson is an exceptionally qualified nominee as well as an historic nominee, and the Senate should move forward with a fair and timely hearing and
confirmation."
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