Collins to Back Jackson for Supreme Court, Giving Her a G.O.P. Vote
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — Senator Susan Collins of Maine plans to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, ensuring that President Biden’s nominee and the first Black woman to be put forward for the post will receive at least one Republican backer. After a second personal meeting with the judge on Tuesday afternoon, Ms. Collins said Judge Jackson had alleviated some concerns that surfaced after last week’s contentious Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, when Republicans attacked the nominee for her record and grilled her on a host of divisive issues.
“I have decided to support the confirmation of Judge Jackson to be a member of the Supreme Court,” Ms. Collins said in an interview after the meeting. The centrist senator, often a key vote on Supreme Court clashes, said that she had been reassured that Judge Jackson would not be “bending the law to meet a personal preference” and that the nominee met her personal standard for serving on the court.
“In recent years, senators on both sides of the aisle have gotten away from what I perceive to be the appropriate process for evaluating judicial nominees,” she said. “In my view, the role under the Constitution assigned to the Senate is to look at the credentials, experience and qualifications of the nominee. It is not to assess whether a nominee reflects the individual ideology of a senator or would vote exactly as an individual senator would want.”
Her decision will allow Mr. Biden and Senate Democrats to claim some degree of bipartisanship around the historic nomination, though whether other Republicans will join Ms. Collins remains unclear. If Democrats stay united, it would also avoid the spectacle of Vice President Kamala Harris having to break a tie to seat a nominee on the Supreme Court, an unprecedented outcome that some saw as potentially damaging to the court’s standing.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-susan-collins.html
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especially the ones who pushed through the eminently qualified Coney-Barrett and Weepy Kavanaugh. 
Put and voted to put federalist society member's....3 of them on the bench......that don't like the constitution to much
Put one on the bench , because of what Mitch did to Garland.....just loves that advise consent rule
Put someone on the bench that was accused of sexual assault.....and cried in his beer.....
Put three on the bench that was basically and bought for with "dark money".... wouldn't answer the questions
Put two of them on the bench that helped in the Bush v Gore shit show......and not the third member "guy" leading the bench now that went right along with gutting the 1964 Voting Rights Act.......and now look and see what the country has ...... fascist Florida, Texas, Georgia ectara ... and 26 other right wing fascist states gutting voting rights......
And then sum it all up we have this just as a reminder .......
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017725213
Yep the pollical wind is just a blowing with concern.....I guess she thinks that this vote of "AYE".....will make up the difference of the last three........
