Senator Marsha Blackburn Meets with President Biden’s SCOTUS Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) met with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday following her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Today, I met with Judge Jackson and remain committed to thoroughly vetting her writings, rulings and record,” Senator Blackburn said. “A justice must be committed to upholding the rule of law and the Constitution as written.”

Senator Blackburn is the only female Republican member of the Judiciary Committee, which is responsible for vetting and holding hearings for Supreme Court nominees. Confirmation hearings for Brown Jackson will begin on March 21st, according to FOX News, with Democratic leaders setting a goal of reaching a final Senate vote by April 8th. If confirmed, Brown Jackson would be the first black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Judge Brown Jackson was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2021. Prior to serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, she was nominated by former President Barack Obama in 2013 to the U.S. District Court for D.C. She also has a background as an assistant federal public defender and clerked for current Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in 1999.

President Joe Biden announced Brown Jackson as his nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court on February 25th.

After his announcement, Senator Blackburn said that it was “extremely inappropriate” for President Joe Biden to announce a Supreme Court nomination amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“President Biden’s announcement just days after an unprovoked full scale invasion by Russia is extremely inappropriate,” Blackburn wrote on Twitter at the time. “Once again, Biden is putting the demands of the radical progressive left ahead of what is best for our nation.”

“We must not blindly confirm a justice to serve as a rubber stamp for a radical progressive agenda,” Blackburn said in a separate tweet.

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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.

 

 

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  1. Catherine

    Would we be able to see more from Senator Blackburn, Hagerty, and our other elected officials on what they are doing right *now* to do everything possible to bring down gas prices? If you are not opening pipelines, going full bull with domestic production and the like then you ARE the problem. I don’t want ANY OTHER business done in Washington until these people help *Americans* right here.

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