The nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to a seat on the United States Supreme Court will go to the Senate floor after the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked 11-11 along Party lines on her qualifications, the Washington Post reports.
Despite Republicans on the committee praising her background and professional experience–including Lindsey Graham who voted to put her on the federal appeals court–and despite her not bawling about her love of beer or any other spirit, no Republican voted to advance her nomination. Instead of attempting to query her judicial philosophy, the nomination hearing featured Republicans undertaking performance art, attempting to fire zingers at Jackson, and then claiming she a radical leftist who would remake the court, though the the philosophical split on the court would not change with her appointment.
Jackson is expected to get bipartisan support for her nomination on the Senate floor, a vote that would make her the first Black female to sit on the Supreme Court.