Two more Republicans back Ketanji Brown Jackson for supreme court

If confirmed, Ketanji Brown Jackson would make history as the first Black woman and only the sixth woman to sit on the court in more than 200 years. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney on Monday brought to three the number of Republican senators to say they would vote in favor of supporting Ketanji Brown Jackson as Joe Biden’s nominee to the US supreme court.

Murkowski of Alaska put out a statement on Monday evening saying: “After multiple in-depth conversations with Judge Jackson and deliberative review of her record and recent hearings, I will support her historic nomination to be an Associate Justice on the US supreme court.”