Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) suggested on Monday that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would not have gotten a hearing before the Judiciary committee if Republicans controlled the Senate.
“If we get back the Senate and we are in charge of this body and there is judicial openings, we will talk to our colleagues on the other side. But if we are in charge, she would not have been before this committee. You would have had somebody more moderate than this,” Graham said during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting.
Graham who voted to confirm Judge Jackson to the D.C Circuit court last July explained that he opposing her nomination this time around because “now that you’re talking about Supreme Court, you’re making policy not just bound by it,” adding that she is an “activist to the core.”
In 2016, President Barack Obama’s moderate Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland was not given a hearing in the Republican controlled Senate.
