Why the Senate should vote against Ketanji Brown Jackson

Published March 21, 2022 12:00am ET



Last week, I laid out three reasons senators should think twice before giving Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson a premature vote of support. She has since made their decisions much easier, making it clear that lawmakers must vote against her nomination for the sake of the Supreme Court and the integrity of our judiciary.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell revealed this weekend that Jackson refused to object to court packing when she met with him earlier this month. He said he asked Jackson to “defend the court” by opposing the Left’s attempts to expand the bench. “She wouldn’t do that,” he said, noting it “would have been an easy thing for [Jackson] to do to defend the integrity of the court.”

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