Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) brought the political bickering over Ketanji Brown Jackson into full view by saying her Supreme Court nomination would have been shut down if Republicans were in control of the Senate. Graham made his comments as the Senate Judiciary Committee met on Monday to vote on Jackson’s nomination. The senator explained himself as “the Supreme Court is different from the Circuit Court. Circuit Court level because I’m disposed to do that.”“Now that you’re talking about the Supreme Court, you’re making policy, not just bound by it,” he said. Republicans previously refused to consider Merrick Garland’s appointment to the Supreme Court after the death of Antonin Scalia.

Source: New York Times April 04, 2022 18:58 UTC