GOP Frets Over How Hard to Fight Jackson

“Republicans are rejecting the harshest tactics that could trap Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination indefinitely in the Senate Judiciary Committee — though they’re wrestling with how hard to fight it,” Politico reports.

“While Democratic support alone is enough to get President Joe Biden’s high-court pick confirmed in the 50-50 Senate, unilateral GOP opposition would require the nation’s first Black female vice president to break a tie on the nation’s first Black female Supreme Court justice. Even a tied committee vote would force a procedural vote on the Senate floor, a rare occurrence for a high-court nominee.”