Lindsey Graham criticized Biden’s Supreme Court nominee months after confirming her to the D.C. circuit court.

Lindsey Graham criticized Biden's Supreme Court nominee months after confirming her to the D.C. circuit court.

Sen. Lindsey Graham does not appear to be too happy with President Joe Biden’s nominee to replace retiring liberal justice on the Supreme Court Stephen Breyer. Reports say Biden is nominating DC federal appellate court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Graham, who was pushing for Biden to nominate Judge J. Michelle Childs from his home state of South Carolina was not too happy that Judge Jackson got the nod.


“If media reports are accurate, and Judge Jackson has been chosen as the Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Breyer, it means the radical Left has won President Biden over yet again. The attacks by the Left on Judge Childs from South Carolina apparently worked,” Graham tweeted.

“I expect a respectful but interesting hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Harvard-Yale train to the Supreme Court continues to run unabated,” he added.

Graham has voted to confirm several of Biden’s judicial nominees including Judge Jackson. Graham was one of three Republican senators to side with all 50 Democrats to confirm Judge Jackson to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in June 2021.


Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) were the other two Republican senators who voted to confirm Judge Jackson. It is not clear how Collins or Murkowski will vote this time around, but Collins has criticized Biden for pledging to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.

However, in a statement on Friday Collins called Jackson “an experienced federal judge with impressive academic and legal credentials.”

“I will conduct a thorough vetting of Judge Jackson’s nomination and look forward to her public hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee and to meeting with her in my office.”


Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), both of whom have broken with Democrats on a number of big legislative agenda items have aligned with President Biden on his judicial picks. If that trend holds, Democrats can confirm Biden’s nominee without a single vote from any Republican in the Senate.

Democrats are expected to hold confirmation hearings in March with the goal of getting Jackson confirmed by early April.