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‘The court-packers' pick’: McConnell a ‘no’ on Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday he would vote against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is set to become the first Black woman ever to sit on the nation’s highest bench.

McConnell revealed his decision on the Senate floor following the conclusion of a week of Judiciary Committee hearings in which Jackson fielded pointed questions from Republican lawmakers on gender identity and sentences for child pornography.

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