{"id":1401713,"date":"2022-03-26T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401713"},"modified":"2022-03-26T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T15:30:18","slug":"ben-sasse-to-vote-no-on-jacksons-supreme-court-nomination-threatening-judiciary-committees-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-sasse-to-vote-no-on-jacksons-supreme-court-nomination-threatening-judiciary-committees-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Sasse to Vote &#039;No&#039; on Jackson&#039;s Supreme Court Nomination, Threatening\u00a0Judiciary Committee&#039;s Approval\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fben-sasse-to-vote-no-on-jacksons-supreme-court-nomination-threatening-judiciary-committees-approval%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=1401713&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Senate Judiciary Committee member Ben Sasse (R-NE) announced Friday night he will vote \u201cno\u201d on\u00a0Ketanji\u00a0Brown Jackson\u2019s Supreme Court nomination, threatening the committee\u2019s approval of the judge.<\/p>\n<p>If a majority of Judiciary Committee members do not vote to approve Jackson\u2019s nomination, the vote may result in an 11-11 tie between Republicans and Democrats, forwarding her nomination to the Senate floor with additional procedural steps, meaning the nomination does not have the committee\u2019s recommendation, which under other circumstances is often fatal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>A full Senate vote could\u00a0then\u00a0mean moderate Democrats may oppose Jackson\u2019s nomination because of her record of soft\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/25\/sex-offender-thanks-ketanji-brown-jackson-for-three-month-prison-sentence-she-knew-this-was-going-to-hold-me-back-so-she-didnt-really-want-to-add-on-to-that\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sentencing<\/a>\u00a0on child pornography cases.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Sasse said he opposes Jackson\u2019s nomination because of a lack of any judicial philosophy, which she should have made \u201cclear and understandable\u201d for the committee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u201cJudge Jackson is an extraordinary person with an extraordinary American story. We both love this country, but we disagree on judicial philosophy and I am sadly unable to vote for this confirmation,\u201d Sasse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sasse.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=48DE80D7-0321-4775-B427-C89AA0DCF264\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cJudge Jackson has impeccable credentials and a deep knowledge of the law, but at every turn this week she not only refused to claim originalism as her judicial philosophy, she refused to claim any judicial philosophy at all,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike so much of our public square, the Supreme Court confirmation process is broken and doesn\u2019t build trust in either the Senate or the Supreme Court. Senators should have made fewer speeches, and Judge Jackson should have made her judicial philosophy clear and understandable to the American people,\u201d Sasse added. \u201cUnfortunately, neither of those things happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jackson\u2019s nomination faces challenges. Breitbart News\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/25\/sex-offender-thanks-ketanji-brown-jackson-for-three-month-prison-sentence-she-knew-this-was-going-to-hold-me-back-so-she-didnt-really-want-to-add-on-to-that\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0on Friday that Wesley Hawkins, one of Jackson\u2019s sentenced registered sex offenders, who was only given three months in prison by Jackson, seemingly thanked her for the lenient sentence in his case. Hawkins also acknowledged he received from Jackson considerably less prison time than many other sex offenders convicted for child pornography possession:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20383949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1387390693.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill March 23, 2022, in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Friday, several Republican members on the Judiciary Committee issued a letter demanding Jackson divulge further information about the Hawkins case. Those members include\u00a0Sens.\u00a0Tom Cotton (R-AR), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ben Sasse (R-NE), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Kennedy (R-LA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).<\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\">Gettr<\/a>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Judiciary Committee member Ben Sasse (R-NE) announced Friday night he will vote \u201cno\u201d on\u00a0Ketanji\u00a0Brown Jackson\u2019s Supreme Court nomination, threatening the committee\u2019s approval of the judge. 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