{"id":1951,"date":"2022-04-08T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/2022\/04\/08\/biden-secures-his-first-supreme-court-justice-will-it-be-his-last\/"},"modified":"2022-04-08T09:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:33:58","slug":"biden-secures-his-first-supreme-court-justice-will-it-be-his-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/2022\/04\/08\/biden-secures-his-first-supreme-court-justice-will-it-be-his-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden secures his first Supreme Court justice. Will it be his last?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican leaders are refusing to commit to allowing a vote on Biden’s pick for a potential vacancy if they win control of the Senate this fall.<\/p>

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Then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, with President Joe Biden, speaks after she was nominated to be a justice of the Supreme Court at the White House on Feb. 25.<\/p>

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Joe Biden secured a legacy that is poised to outlast his time in office with the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, to the Supreme Court for life tenure.<\/p>

But behind the joy and elation of putting the first Black woman on the court hovered a more daunting question: Could she be both Biden’s first justice \u2014 and his last?<\/p>

As the November elections edge closer, Senate Republicans are signaling the revival of hardball tactics, refusing to rule out a full-scale blockade against a Biden nominee for the remainder of his four-year term if a vacancy were to arise.<\/p>

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Senate confirms Jackson to Supreme Court in historic vote<\/a><\/h2>

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\u201cI\u2019m not going to go forward with any prediction on what our strategy might be should we become the majority,\u201d Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters this week, when asked if he\u2019d commit to allowing a vote on a Biden nominee in 2023.<\/p>

McConnell added that he can say \u201cwith pretty great certainty\u201d that Biden, who \u201cran as a moderate\u201d in 2020, would have to spend the next two years \u201cbeing a moderate.\u201d<\/p>

It’s far from clear whether Biden will have another vacancy to fill. The next-oldest liberal justice, Sonia Sotomayor, is 67. The oldest of the six conservative justices, Clarence Thomas, is 73. But if Biden gets that opportunity, it could all hinge on which party controls the Senate, raising the stakes for the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>

In 2016, McConnell blocked a vote on then-President Barack Obama\u2019s nominee to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, a move that abolished a long-standing tradition that nominees receive a vote and laid the groundwork for the court\u2019s shift to the right. Last year, McConnell refused to say<\/a> whether he\u2019d permit a vote in 2023 on a \u201cnormal mainstream liberal\u201d picked by Biden if he’s in charge.<\/p>

White House chief of staff Ron Klain responded Thursday night on MSNBC: “It is not our plan to let Mitch McConnell make that decision in 2023. It’s our plan to have Sen. Schumer be in charge of making the decision in 2023. I’m quite confident that if there’s a Supreme Court vacancy, Majority Leader Schumer will make sure that person has a prompt and fair hearing.”<\/p>

At a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Jackson this week, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in no uncertain terms Jackson would not have come before the panel if Republicans were in charge.<\/p>

For Biden, it was a moment of elation after his team worked with the Senate to hold all 50 Democrats together and pluck three Republican senators, giving her 53 votes in the evenly split chamber \u2014 more than the last two Republican nominees received under larger majorities. He celebrated the moment with Jackson.<\/p>

Historic moment for our courts and for our country. Congratulations, Judge Jackson. pic.twitter.com\/eLSfs1QoHB<\/a><\/p>— President Biden (@POTUS) April 7, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>