WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s meeting with Sen. Lindsey Graham concluded after roughly 15 minutes, a strikingly brief sit-down with a key Republican a week before her confirmation hearings begin.
Graham, a South Carolina Republican and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was one of three Republicans to support Jackson’s confirmation last year to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a traditional launching pad to the Supreme Court.
But the senator appears less likely to support the judge’s elevation to the high court. Graham had publicly campaigned for Biden to select another judge for his historic pick to be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, federal Judge J. Michelle Childs, a fellow South Carolinian, and last month criticized Jackson’s selection over Childs.
