GOP Senator says Michelle Childs would get 60 votes
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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), is the Senate Budget Committee’s ranking member, during an hearing that examines wages at large, profitable corporations in Washington on Capitol Hill, U.S.A, February 25, 2021.
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WASHINGTON — Republican Senate Lindsey GrahamIt was forecasted that President Trump would win on Sunday Joe Biden were to nominate South Carolina federal judge Michelle Childs to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, Childs would likely win more than 10 Republican votes in the Senate.
Graham stated that “She’s someone, I believe, that could bring together the Senate and probably get more 60 votes,” on ABC’s ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos”. He added, “Anyone else could be problematic.”
Graham was the former chair of the influential Senate Judiciary Committee. He hails from South Carolina, just like Childs. In the past, he spoke highly of Childs.
Graham, in a January interview said that Childs “is a highly skilled, fair-minded jurist” and added that Childs “is among the most decent people I’ve ever encountered.”
An undated photograph of Judge J. Michelle Childs of United States District Court District of South Carolina.
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Graham praised U.S. District Court judge again on Sunday. Graham stated that Graham’s humble education and non Ivy League education made it possible for her to bring educational diversity into the high court. It is stocked full of Ivy League graduates.
Unsaid was that Childs would be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court if she were confirmed, fulfilling Biden’s promise in his campaign to nominate Black women if there is ever a vacant seat.
Childs also has the support of James Clyburn, a Democratic Rep from South Carolina.
Clyburn was a highly influential figure in South Carolina and his endorsement of Biden for 2020 by Clyburn just before the South Carolina Democratic Primary is widely considered to have turned the tide against Biden’s struggling campaign.
Childs is one of three nominees currently on Biden’s shortlist to the high court. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Justice Leondra Kruger, California Supreme Court.
As Biden prepares to interview the top three candidates this week, Graham’s prediction that Childs could win more than 10 Republican votes is significant, because Graham also seemed to imply that if Biden were to nominate Childs she would have a relatively smooth confirmation process. This could prove to be very positive news for the White House, which is currently facing many domestic and international challenges.
Currently, Biden’s job approval rating is underwater with votersMany blame President Obama for inflating at an unprecedented 40-year high, and Covid is not expected to end anytime soon.
Biden is facing a foreign challenge a military and foreign policy crisis in UkraineThe imminent Russian invasion threat has caused the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to withdraw staff and warn Americans about the possibility of war.
In this context, the President’s inexorable, ugly Supreme Court confirmation fight this spring will tax both his political capital and his time at a moment when they are short of both.
Graham predicts that Childs would be elected and confirmed by more than 10 Republican voters if he is nominated. This would mark a break with the bitterly divided Washington of recent years. It also reflects deepening political divisions in America.
Biden does not technically require any Republican votes in order to be confirmed. However, Vice President Kamala Harriman would make a break for a tie.
A bipartisan confirmation vote like Graham predicts for Childs with 10 or more Republicans would be a significant political and personal win for Biden.
Biden, as a candidate promised that he would govern as both a centrist-unifier. However, in practice this proved to be far more challenging than what it appeared on the campaign trail.
U.S. president Joe Biden spoke to journalists as Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Senator Judiciary Committee chairman Dick Durbin (a Democrat), host Charles Grassley and Charles Grassley at the Oval Office in the White House in Washington. The two will discuss the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court vacancy.
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An election to confirm the Supreme Court would bring together Republicans and Democrats, a departure from the precedent set by Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 and 2020 Supreme Court confirmations.
Both Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett were confirmed by Republican-controlled Senates along straight party lines, with no Democratic votes.
The confirmation fight for Kavanaugh was bitterest in recent history. Senators considered a serious accusation of attempted sexual assault against Kavanaugh that had been made during his confirmation hearings.
Coney Barrett, however, was confirmed by the supreme court in October last year. This was just 30 days following her nomination by Donald Trump.
Biden promised that he would announce his nomination to the Supreme Court by February 31st.
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