Mon Apr 4, 2022 – 8:13 pm EDTMon Apr 4, 2022 – 10:25 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Monday vote on whether to confirm Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson ended with an 11-11 party-line deadlock, likely pushing the final vote off until Thursday.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, said he will “set in motion a process that will set up a final confirmation vote by the end of this week.”
The Los Angeles Times reported that Monday’s deadlock marks the “first time the judiciary panel has split on a Supreme Court nominee in more than three decades.”
Analysts had predicted the party-line split in advance of Monday’s vote, which was rendered late in the day due to a flight delay experienced by Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California, who reportedly “rushed” from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. to give his “aye” vote for U.S. President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick.
As expected, Senate Judiciary Committee ties 11-11 on Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination, nomination now proceeds to a procedural vote on the Senate floor that will keep everything moving toward a final vote later this week
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