.LeaderMcConnell said Thursday that the Senate is a co-equal partner with the president in confirming nominees to the Supreme Court.
At an event sponsored by Punchbowl News, McConnell said Republicans opposing the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, found her “attitude about sentencing with certain kinds of criminal cases” and her answers to questions about court-packing “troubling.”“I think she's the kind of nominee the president would want, and I don't think he'll be disappointed in her performance over the years,” the Kentucky Republican said.
Asked why that kind of bipartisan support for Supreme Court nominees no longer seems possible, McConnell argued the tide began to change when “Democrats assassinated Robert Bork,” who was nominated in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan but not confirmed. He said that despite some bipartisan lulls, the Senate has shifted into an assertive mode in the confirmation process.
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