Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) will support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, she told the New York Times
, where a number of Republican senators went after her judicial record.Times
, saying Jackson had also convinced her she would not “[bend] the law to meet a personal preference.” Collins said Jackson had assured her she “would forever stay out of” the issue of adding justices to the court—which some other GOP senators had criticized her for not weighing in on—and said she adequately explained concerns some Republican colleagues had raised about her work on behalf of Guantanamo Bay prisoners.to vote for Jackson’s confirmation to the D.C. Circuit Court last year, along with Sens.
Tuesday about Jackson, saying he “think[s] a great deal of her.” “But delving into differences on judicial philosophy and her approach to the law is something that I’m going to keep working on.”Jackson is a federal judge who’s previously served as a public defender and on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and she will be the first Black woman on the court if confirmed.
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