The "Republican" Senator from Maine, Susan Collins, announced to The New York Times on Wednesday that she would support the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
This announcement kills any hopes the Republicans had at stopping the controversial nominee.
This is the same Republican senator who voted AGAINST the nomination of Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, citing issues with how the procedure was hurried before the election.
From the Daily Wire:
Collins, who met with the judge Tuesday afternoon for the second time, told The New York Times in an interview that Jackson had explained away some concerns Collins had after the judge met with the Senate Judiciary Committee last week.
"I have decided to support the confirmation of Judge Jackson to be a member of the Supreme Court," said Collins, who opposed the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the fall of 2020, objecting that her nomination was too close to the presidential election.
The GOP senator said that Jackson had reassured her that she would not bend "the law to meet a personal preference," saying that Jackson met Collins' personal standards for Supreme Court justices.
"In recent years, senators on both sides of the aisle have gotten away from what I perceive to be the appropriate process for evaluating judicial nominees," Collins said. "In my view, the role under the Constitution assigned to the Senate is to look at the credentials, experience and qualifications of the nominee. It is not to assess whether a nominee reflects the individual ideology of a senator or would vote exactly as an individual senator would want."
If Collins votes for Jackson, The Times reported, Vice President Kamala Harris would not have to cast the tie breaking vote — an "unprecedented outcome that some saw as potentially damaging to the court's standing," the outlet reported.
Collins was also one of three Republicans to vote for Jackson to be confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in June, according to The Times.
So... despite Jackson going soft on child pornography, Jackson citing prominent Critical Theorists as influences, and even Jackson's inability to define the word "woman," a GOP senator still believes that Jackson is qualified for the highest court in the land.
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