"I cannot and will not support Judge Jackson for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court,” McConnell said in remarks on the Senate floor.
McConnell claimed Jackson was not ready to respond to her judicial record or philosophy questions, claiming her record was more light than previous nominees.
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He also slammed Jackson for not taking a stance on the size of the Supreme Court when asked about calls from progressives to add additional justices to counteract the current Conservative balance.
“The most radical pro-court packing fringe groups badly wanted this nominee for this vacancy,” McConnell said. “Judge Jackson was the court packer’s pick, and she testified like it.”
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Jackson’s nomination, McConnell claimed, is part of a push from the Biden Administration to make the nation “softer on crime.”
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“The judge regularly gave certain terrible kinds of criminals light sentencing guidelines,” McConnell said, reciting Republican ideas that Jackson’s sentences for child pornography offenders as a trial judge were tolerant. Jackson said her punishments were within legal norms and guidelines that judges must consider as a matter of law.
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McConnell claimed Jackson’s policy views “seep into her jurisprudence.”
“Nothing we saw this week convinced me that either President Biden or Judge Jackson’s deeply invested far-left fan club have misjudged her,” he said. “I will vote against this nominee on the Senate floor.”
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McConnell said he went into the nomination process with an “open mind,” but his remarks confirmed his expected opposition to Jackson’s confirmation.
Sen. Dick Durbin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, later delivered statements pushing back on McConnell, claiming Jackson gave a proper response to questions about court-packing, saying it was the role of other units of government to resolve.
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Durbin said charges Democrats were soft on crime are driven by Republicans testing a message for November elections, claiming Jackson comes from a law enforcement family and was praised by the Fraternal Order of Police.
Jackson’s sentencing record, Durbin said, was “in the mainstream.”
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Just three Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — previously voted to confirm Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Graham, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, condemned Jackson on her record during her confirmation hearing in several tense exchanges and is not widely expected to support her again.
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