02/05/2022
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Biden should listen to House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) who says Republican support will be needed for the upcoming Supreme Court nominee. Clyburn says “I know how to count. I’m the whip. It has to be bipartisan."
The news media claims the frontrunner to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (photo), but she will be a difficult sell among GOP senators.
In addition, it's very doubtful Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) would support her. The George Soros funded district attorneys praise Judge Jackson's work to reduce jail times for criminals.
Her labor-friendly rulings have drawn praise from "progressive" activist group but Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) said she "wants to legislate from the bench.” Biden has already interviewed Jackson, meeting with the judge as part of her D.C. Circuit nomination process last year.
Democrats are down to 49 votes in the chamber, following the hospitalization of Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) who had a stroke.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) is openly pulling for South Carolina Federal District Court Judge Michelle Childs. Sen. Manchin calls Childs "a tremendous, tremendous candidate," and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) says there would be a lot of GOP support for Childs.
The American Federation of Government Employees opposes Childs who was the first Black women to serve as a partner at a major South Carolina law firm.
The AFGE says "She comes from an anti-union law firm where she spent time defending employers."
Larry Cohen, former president of the Communications Workers of America, said there “is widespread concern” in the labor movement about Childs’s record who "spent years on the wrong side.”