Explainer: What's ahead for Biden's Supreme Court nominee

Feb 26, 2022 View Original Article
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  • Policy Leaning

    -40% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    94% Negative

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"Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker said he viewed Biden's promise as affirmative action for the Supreme Court."
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80% Conservative
"Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker said he viewed Biden's promise as affirmative action for the Supreme Court."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker said he viewed Biden's promise as affirmative action for the Supreme Court."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Biden invited several Republican senators to the White House as he weighed his pick, and Durbin has stayed in close touch with several key Republicans, including Grassley and Susan Collins, a Maine moderate."
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0% Conservative
"Biden invited several Republican senators to the White House as he weighed his pick, and Durbin has stayed in close touch with several key Republicans, including Grassley and Susan Collins, a Maine moderate."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Biden invited several Republican senators to the White House as he weighed his pick, and Durbin has stayed in close touch with several key Republicans, including Grassley and Susan Collins, a Maine moderate."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Biden invited several Republican senators to the White House as he weighed his pick, and Durbin has stayed in close touch with several key Republicans, including Grassley and Susan Collins, a Maine moderate."
Positive
0% Conservative
"I guarantee she will be respectfully vetted with the kind of process I think you can be proud of, McCoell said Tuesday."
Positive
34% Conservative
"When aouncing Jackson's nomination on Friday, Biden noted that he had met with Durbin and the top Republican on the Judiciary panel, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, in recent weeks."
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8% Conservative
"When aouncing Jackson's nomination on Friday, Biden noted that he had met with Durbin and the top Republican on the Judiciary panel, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, in recent weeks."
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8% Conservative
"When aouncing Jackson's nomination on Friday, Biden noted that he had met with Durbin and the top Republican on the Judiciary panel, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, in recent weeks."
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8% Conservative
"My hope is that they will move promptly, Biden said."
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18% Conservative
"That may be asking a lot, but Biden made the process easier by picking Jackson, who was already vetted by the Senate Judiciary Committee last year when Biden nominated her for her current job."
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10% Conservative
"That may be asking a lot, but Biden made the process easier by picking Jackson, who was already vetted by the Senate Judiciary Committee last year when Biden nominated her for her current job."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday the Senate will move forward on the nomination with a fair, timely and expeditious process."
Positive
8% Conservative
"WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden's nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court has launched what Democrats hope will be a quick, bipartisan confirmation process for the court's first Black woman."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Jackson was nominated by President Biden in 2021 to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and confirmed by the Senate last June."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Schumer said that once Judiciary votes on the nomination, the Senate will move immediately to confirm her."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Jackson herself referred to the conflict abroad, thanking Biden on Friday for the care that you have taken in discharging your constitutional duty in service of our democracy with all that is going on in the world today."
Positive
2% Conservative
"She previously sat on the D.C. district court, nominated by former President Barack Obama and confirmed in 2013."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Democrats are waiting on the return of New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, who suffered a stroke several weeks ago and is expected back in the Senate next month."
Positive
0% Conservative
"As long as Lujan returns by the final vote, and the rest of the Democratic caucus stays healthy and present in Washington, Democrats could confirm Jackson with no Republican support."
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-4% Liberal
"Democrats control the Senate because Vice President Kamala Harris has the tie-breaking vote."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Jackson's confirmation will likely take longer than that, but Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin said Friday the panel will start the process immediately."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Graham, who has voted for several of Biden's judicial nominees, had pushed the president to nominate federal Judge J. Michelle Childs, a South Carolinian."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Graham, who has voted for several of Biden's judicial nominees, had pushed the president to nominate federal Judge J. Michelle Childs, a South Carolinian."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Republicans Collins, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina all voted for Jackson's confirmation to the federal appeals court last year."
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-14% Liberal
"Republicans Collins, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina all voted for Jackson's confirmation to the federal appeals court last year."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Republicans Collins, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina all voted for Jackson's confirmation to the federal appeals court last year."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Still, Biden and Durbin have said they want the vote to be bipartisan."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Still, Biden and Durbin have said they want the vote to be bipartisan."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"For too long, our government, our courts, haven't looked like America, Biden said on Friday."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Senate Republican Leader Mitch McCoell questioned Jackson's productivity as an appeals court judge, others her record on crime and her political leanings."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The last three Supreme Court confirmations, all nominees chosen by then-President Donald Trump, were intense partisan battles that deeply divided the Senate."
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-26% Liberal
"Several GOP senators have said it was inappropriate for Biden to pledge during his presidential campaign that he would nominate a Black woman."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Vice President Harris could break a tie."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"But McCoell has made clear he doesn't want that kind of criticism to continue."
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-30% Liberal
"While Collins has appeared open to voting for her again, it is unclear whether Murkowski, who is up for reelection this year, or Graham, who had pushed for another candidate, will support her."
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-34% Liberal
"While Collins has appeared open to voting for her again, it is unclear whether Murkowski, who is up for reelection this year, or Graham, who had pushed for another candidate, will support her."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"While Collins has appeared open to voting for her again, it is unclear whether Murkowski, who is up for reelection this year, or Graham, who had pushed for another candidate, will support her."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"But because Jackson replacing Breyer would not shift the ideological balance of the court, and because Republicans confirmed three conservative justices under Trump, GOP senators may not spend a lot of political energy opposing her."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"But because Jackson replacing Breyer would not shift the ideological balance of the court, and because Republicans confirmed three conservative justices under Trump, GOP senators may not spend a lot of political energy opposing her."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said that was discriminatory and an insult to Black women."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"Speaking in Kentucky this week, he dismissed claims that Biden's promise was inappropriate and noted that Trump himself pledged to put a woman on the court before Barrett was nominated."
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0% Conservative
"Speaking in Kentucky this week, he dismissed claims that Biden's promise was inappropriate and noted that Trump himself pledged to put a woman on the court before Barrett was nominated."
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0% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

90% : Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker said he viewed Biden's promise as "affirmative action" for the Supreme Court.

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