Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson continued her meetings with lawmakers on Wednesday as she approaches her confirmation hearings, convening with Republican Sens. Josh Hawley and Mike Lee.
Lee and Hawley have recently expressed concerns about her nomination to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, who will step down from the high court later this year. Hawley recounted that he was troubled by Jackson’s “record on crime and criminal justice” in a statement last month, while Lee has “grave concerns” about the “precedent she would seek to set” as a justice, he said in a Feb. 25 statement.
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