{"id":1346049,"date":"2022-02-26T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1346049"},"modified":"2022-02-26T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T00:08:10","slug":"marsha-blackburn-slams-biden-for-announcing-scotus-nominee-during-ukraine-invasion-extremely-inappropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marsha-blackburn-slams-biden-for-announcing-scotus-nominee-during-ukraine-invasion-extremely-inappropriate\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsha Blackburn Slams Biden For Announcing SCOTUS Nominee During Ukraine Invasion: \u2018Extremely Inappropriate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarsha-blackburn-slams-biden-for-announcing-scotus-nominee-during-ukraine-invasion-extremely-inappropriate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1346049&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/30B21D5A-EF4E-4C7B-9397-7576633AAA68-scaled-e1645920007579.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn blasted President Joe Biden for announcing his nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in the middle of the crisis in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In a twitter thread Friday, Blackburn, who serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the approval of judicial appointments, took Biden to task for attempting to pivot away from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and caving to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden\u2019s announcement just days after an unprovoked full scale invasion by Russia is extremely inappropriate,\u201d Blackburn tweeted. \u201cOnce again, Biden is putting the demands of the radical progressive left ahead of what is best for our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Biden\u2019s announcement just days after an unprovoked full scale invasion by Russia is extremely inappropriate. Once again, Biden is putting the demands of the radical progressive left ahead of what is best for our nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshaBlackburn\/status\/1497240380051542019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is an attempt to hide that for over three months Biden refused to levy sanctions against Russia or send military assistance to Ukraine,\u201d Blackburn added. \u201cHowever, I cannot hold President Biden\u2019s failure to lead our nation against his nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It is an attempt to hide that for over three months Biden refused to levy sanctions against Russia or send military assistance to Ukraine. However, I cannot hold President Biden\u2019s failure to lead our nation against his nominee.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshaBlackburn\/status\/1497240381238525952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI do plan on meeting with the President\u2019s nominee in person, and thoroughly vetting her record to determine if she is a person of high character. A Supreme Court nominee must be committed to upholding the rule of law and Constitution as written,\u201d Blackburn continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I do plan on meeting with the President\u2019s nominee in person, and thoroughly vetting her record to determine if she is a person of high character. A Supreme Court nominee must be committed to upholding the rule of law and Constitution as written.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshaBlackburn\/status\/1497240382098268164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe must not blindly confirm a justice to serve as a rubber stamp for a radical progressive agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We must not blindly confirm a justice to serve as a rubber stamp for a radical progressive agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshaBlackburn\/status\/1497240383025262595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blackburn\u2019s criticism of the announcement came shortly after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who also serves on the Judiciary Committee, issued a statement of his own lamenting the nomination of Jackson as Biden caving to his Left flank. Graham had previously championed the cause of federal District of South Carolina Judge J. Michelle Childs to fill the vacancy left by the upcoming retirement of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf 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,\u201d Graham tweeted Friday morning. \u201cThe attacks by the Left on Judge Childs from South Carolina apparently worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">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.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks by the Left on Judge Childs from South Carolina apparently worked.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/1497218172071645195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI expect a respectful but interesting hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Harvard-Yale train to the Supreme Court continues to run unabated,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I expect a respectful but interesting hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard-Yale train to the Supreme Court continues to run unabated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/1497218325394374709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Joe Biden announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joe-biden-to-nominate-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-supreme-court-report\">Jackson<\/a> as his pick to fill Breyer\u2019s seat Friday morning. The Daily Wire reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., raised in Florida, and graduated from Harvard Law School. She also clerked for Breyer during the 1999-2000 Supreme Court term. Jackson became Biden\u2019s first confirmed appellate judge in 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of strong importance to Biden and fellow Democrats, however, is that Jackson has been twice confirmed by the Senate in the past.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShe has also been twice confirmed by the Senate, including last year, when three Republicans voted yes in\u00a0a 53-to-44\u00a0vote to approve her elevation to the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a traditional proving ground for potential justices. The three Republicans\u00a0who voted to confirm her \u2014 and who will be under pressure from Democrats to do so again in the evenly divided Senate \u2014 were Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska,\u201d The New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/02\/25\/us\/supreme-court-nominee-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Breyer announced his upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-justice-stephen-breyer-to-retire-from-scotus-giving-biden-a-court-pick\">retirement<\/a> from the Supreme Court on January 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn blasted President Joe Biden for announcing his nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in the middle of the crisis in Ukraine.In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}