BREAKING: Senate committee deadlocks on Biden’s SCOTUS nominee

by The Right Scoop

Eleven Republicans and eleven Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked today on sending Biden’s SCOTUS nominee to the Senate for a vote.

THE HILL – The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination in a Monday vote, the panel’s first tie on a high court pick since 1991.

Senators voted 11-11 on sending Jackson’s nomination to the full Senate, with the vote breaking down along party lines. The evenly split committee is one of the byproducts of the 50-50 Senate.

It’s the first committee tie vote on a Supreme Court nominee since Justice Clarence Thomas’s nomination.

But don’t worry, the deadlock doesn’t mean that Biden will have to start over picking a new nominee:

The split vote doesn’t sink Jackson’s nomination, but it will require the Senate to formally discharge her nomination from committee. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is expected to move to do so later Monday, the first time a Supreme Court nominee has had to be discharged from committee since 1853.

This is essentially a tempest in a teapot because Democrats running the Senate will make sure that Jackson’s nomination moves forward for a full vote, where at least one Republican will join Democrats to send Jackson to the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, Politico screwed up this morning by claiming that Jackson would end up being the first black Supreme Court Justice on the court:


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