Ketanji Brown Jackson is the most popular Supreme Court nominee in years

[pecksniff]

Believe it or not.

Five recent surveys have indicated strong support for President Joe Biden's decision to nominate Jackson for the Supreme Court seat retiring Justice Stephen Breyer is vacating. According to an average of polls by Gallup, Fox, Monmouth University, Quinnipiac University and the Pew Research Center, about 53% of Americans supported her confirmation, with about 26% of Americans opposed. This is good for a +27-point net popularity rating.
If Jackson's ratings hold up through her likely confirmation, she would be the most popular nominee to be confirmed since John Roberts in 2005. Jackson's popularity should only help her in the confirmation process.

A few years ago, I built a statistical model to help understand why senators vote the way they do on Supreme Court nominees. The model took into account variables such as a nominee's qualifications, the ideology of the nominee and the senator, etc.

One of the factors I included was public sentiment about a nominee. Holding everything else equal, nominees got more votes when they were more popular with the public. Clarence Thomas, for example, was generally viewed in 1991 as very conservative and not as well qualified as many earlier nominees. Yet, Thomas was confirmed by a Democratic-controlled Senate.

 

[YDB95]

Hey! If you make deplorables' heads explode in here, YOU have to clean up the mess!!

 

[colddiesel]

I am not sure what popularity has to do with the issue, but I have enjoyed watching the lady belt her numbskull questioners out of the park. Ever so nicely of course.

 

[DirtKnapp]

has "she" figured out what a woman is? has "she" asked her "daughter"?

 

[ll74]

has "she" figured out what a woman is? has "she" asked her "daughter"?

Yes, we get that pronouns confuse you

 

[JohnnySavage]

Biden could nominate Robert Bork and the Republicans wouldn't vote for him. They are Republicans first and Americans second. The two-party system will be the downfall of our democracy.

 

[Rightguide]

Believe it or not.

if that is true, it's because much of her records have been hidden from Senate Republicans and the American people.

 

[ll74]

if that is true, it's because much of her records have been hidden from Senate Republicans and the American people.

None of her records are hidden.

 

[pecksniff]

if that is true, it's because much of her records have been hidden from Senate Republicans and the American people.

How could her records be hidden? She's a judge.