{"id":1409724,"date":"2022-03-30T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409724"},"modified":"2022-03-30T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:00:27","slug":"republican-sen-susan-collins-says-she-backs-judge-jackson-for-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-sen-susan-collins-says-she-backs-judge-jackson-for-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Sen. Susan Collins Says She Backs Judge Jackson For Supreme Court"},"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\">24<\/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%2Frepublican-sen-susan-collins-says-she-backs-judge-jackson-for-supreme-court%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=1409724&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><\/div>\n<p>Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins will support the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, ensuring that the vote to confirm the judge will be bipartisan.<\/p>\n<p>Collins was seen as one of the Republicans most likely to vote in favor of Jackson, since she previously supported her nomination to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Since entering the Senate in 1997, Collins has voted to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/10\/05\/susan-collins-brett-kavanaugh\/\">support<\/a> every Supreme Court nomination except Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s, who she <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/09\/19\/susan-collins-supreme-court-ginsburg-trump-mcconnell\/\">argued<\/a> was nominated too close to the 2020 election. In a statement first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/30\/us\/politics\/ketanji-brown-jackson-susan-collins.html?smtyp=cur&#038;smid=tw-nytimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a> with The New York Times, Collins said she does not expect to agree with every ruling Jackson makes, but that ideology should not be a barrier to supporting a Supreme Court nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson \u201cpossesses the experience, qualifications, and integrity to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court,\u201d Collins said. \u201cIn my meetings with Judge Jackson, we discussed in depth several issues that were raised in her hearing. Sometimes I agreed with her; sometimes I did not.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Susan Collins\u2019 full statement in support of Jackson, noting the \u201cprocess is broken.\u201d \u201cPart of the reason is that, in recent years, the process has increasingly moved away from what I believe to be appropriate for evaluating a Supreme Court nominee.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qpKtJUwdkM\">pic.twitter.com\/qpKtJUwdkM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manu Raju (@mkraju) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkraju\/status\/1509150080753934342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Collins went on to criticize the confirmation process, joining several other senators who have already done so. Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/23\/ben-sasse-supreme-court-cameras\/\">accused<\/a> his colleagues of \u201cjackassery\u201d spurred on by their desire to perform for cameras during the hearings. He also called the process \u201cbroken\u201d in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sasse.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=48DE80D7-0321-4775-B427-C89AA0DCF264\">statement<\/a> announcing he would not support Jackson. Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/29\/joe-manchin-flames-republicans-ketanji-brown-jackson-hearings\/\">criticized<\/a> Republicans for trying to \u201ctear [Jackson] down\u201d during the hearings instead of examining her record. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/09\/11\/susan-collins-kavanaugh-vote\/\">(RELATED: Susan Collins Tells Left-Wing Activists To Stop Bribing Her Over Kavanaugh Vote)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my view, the role the Constitution clearly assigns to the Senate is to examine the experience, qualifications, and integrity of the nominee. It is not to assess whether a nominee reflects the ideology of an individual Senator or would rule the way an individual Senator would want,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt used to be common for Senators to give the President, regardless of political party, considerable deference in the choice of a nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins referenced the 98-0 confirmation vote for Antonin Scalia and the 96-3 confirmation for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, adding that she would continue her approach to nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson\u2019s nomination will be <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2022\/03\/28\/committee-sets-vote-for-supreme-court-pick-ketanji-brown-jackson\/\">considered<\/a> April 4 by the Senate Judiciary Committee and will reach the floor of the upper chamber soon after. Several Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/24\/mitch-mcconnell-ketanji-jackson-supreme-court\/\">McConnell<\/a>, have already announced that they will not support Jackson, while every Democrat is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/25\/joe-manchin-will-support-ketanji-brown-jackson\/\">expected<\/a> to vote in favor of her nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Maine Sen. 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