Americans Broadly Want The Senate To Confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson To The Supreme Court

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson are now over. And they were incredibly ugly.

In advance of the hearings, my colleague Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux wrote that Jackson’s identity as a Black woman as well as her professional background as a former public defender meant that it was likely she’d be subjected to more questions regarding her qualifications than another nominee would be. And sure enough, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee wasted little time grilling Jackson — often in ways that suggested women and people of color are less qualified than their white counterparts, or that their race makes them inherently biased against white people.

There were attacks both inside — and outside — of the hearings that tried to paint Jackson as a supporter of critical race theory, a legal framework for understanding systemic racism that the GOP has co-opted as a catch-all term for anything related to race. Her judicial record in cases involving child pornography was also heavily scrutinized, even though there is no evidence that she was uncommonly soft in her sentences.

We don’t know yet whether the hearings will dramatically alter Americans’ support of Jackson, but at this point, many Americans support her confirmation. Per a March 1-18 poll from Gallup, 58 percent of Americans said the Senate should vote to confirm Jackson, versus 30 percent who thought she should not be confirmed and 12 percent who had no opinion. Notably, that’s the second-highest level of support that Gallup has recorded for a Supreme Court nominee dating back to Robert Bork’s nomination in 1987.1 Only Chief Justice John Roberts scored higher than Jackson, and only slightly higher — 59 percent of Americans said they supported his nomination in 2005.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-broadly-want-the-senate-to-confirm-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-the-supreme-court/

Pretty boy Hawley and Fat Wolverine can't be too happy.

[onecaliberal]

1. Your comment at the bottom cracked me up.

[jimfields33]

2. Good grief. Everyone knows she's going to be the next Supreme Court judge.

The last 10 were as well as soon as nominated. Only 2 in decades were not, Bork and a woman Bush nominated that didn’t even make it to hearings.

[Kingofalldems]

3. I guess you forgot Merrick Garland.

Good grief.

[jimfields33]

5. I did. That is a huge blunder.

I apologize.

[Polybius]

8. And Douglas H. Ginsburg

Regan nominated him after Bork failed. He had to withdraw because he smoked pot in the 60's. Different times.

[SoCalDavidS]

4. repubs Are Catering To The 30% & 12%

The 30% is their Base, who watch Faux News, and parrot whatever SPIN the Morons in the Senate were spewing during the hearings. The Cult Members.

The 12% who had no opinion, are the brain dead Morons who couldn't care less what happens, because they don't think it impacts them in any way. Some of these will vote repub, because they're too Stupid to know better.

I guess the repub strategy is to convince around 10% of those who think she should get in, that they're wrong for holding that opinion, and should vote repub anyways.

[uponit7771]

6. +1, and because of anti voting laws (AVL) and gerrymandering they feel they have the room to do so.

[pfitz59]

7. Most people I know are disgusted with Republican antics

They see the blatant hypocrisy

[WarGamer]

9. There was never a doubt she'd be confirmed...

The GOP'ers just wanted their "revenge" for the Kavanaugh/Barrett hearings.