GOP Sen. Ben Sasse calls Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘an extraordinary person’ who has ‘a deep knowledge of the law,’ but says he will not vote to confirm her to the Supreme Court – By Alex Nitzberg (The Blaze) / March 25, 2022
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska has announced that he will not vote in favor of confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the nation’s high court.
“Judge Jackson is an extraordinary person with an extraordinary American story,” Sasse said in a statement. “We both love this country, but we disagree on judicial philosophy and I am sadly unable to vote for this confirmation.
“Judge Jackson has impeccable credentials and a deep knowledge of the law, but at every turn this week she not only refused to claim originalism as her judicial philosophy, she refused to claim any judicial philosophy at all. Although she explained originalism and textualism in some detail to the committee, Judge Jackson refused to embrace them or any other precise system of limits on the judicial role,” the lawmaker said.
