As the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on advancing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to the Senate floor for confirmation Monday, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who sits on the committee, warned that her confirmation “will have enormous consequences” for free speech, religious liberty, and the Second Amendment.
“If confirmed, she will be the most liberal justice of all nine, the most liberal to have ever served on the U.S. Supreme Court,” Cruz said.
Cruz appeared on Fox News’s Life, Liberty, & Levin on Sunday and told host Mark Levin that landmark Supreme Court cases often have 5-4 decisions.
“We’re one vote away on issue after issue after issue from losing our fundamental rights,” Cruz said.
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The Republican senator referenced the 2008 ruling of the District of Columbia v. Heller in which the right to keep and bear arms was upheld by a 5-4 margin.
Cruz warned that Jackson would “100%” vote to reverse that decision if given the opportunity, along with overturning the death penalty, noting Jackson’s leniency when issuing sentences in criminal cases.
“When you vote to confirm justices that will release violent criminals and endanger our communities, then you are supporting abolishing the police and repealing the Second Amendment and taking away our free speech rights and taking away our religious liberty rights,” Cruz said.
Cruz put his Senate colleagues on alert, saying, “You are supporting that kind of radical agenda” when voting to confirm Jackson.
There is a chance that the Senate Judiciary Committee could deadlock Monday’s vote 11-11, causing additional hours to be spent on the Senate floor in order to discharge Jackson’s nomination from the committee.
Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat on the committee, said a deadlocked vote would be “a truly unfortunate signal of the continued descent into dysfunction of our confirmation process.”
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Democrats are hoping to confirm Jackson by the end of the week.
