Following news that President Joe Biden will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham took to social media to criticize the president.“The radical Left has won President Biden over yet again,” railed the antigay senator.
Graham, who was one of the few Republicans who publicly supported Biden’s pledge to nominate a Black woman to the Court, had lobbied for South Carolina federal district judge J.
Michelle Childs to get the job.If media reports are accurate, and Judge Jackson has been chosen as the Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Breyer, it means the radical Left has won President Biden over yet again.The attacks by the Left on Judge Childs from South Carolina apparently worked.— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) February 25, 2022“The attacks by the Left on Judge Childs from South Carolina apparently worked,” Graham continued in his tweet.
Childs’ record as a labor and employment lawyer in South Carolina came under scrutiny during the decision process.“[Childs] comes from an anti-union law firm where she spent time defending employers from claims of civil rights and labor law violations,” David Borer, the general counsel of the American Federation of Government Employees, told the Washington Post. “That’s not what we need.”Related: Those Lindsey Graham blackmail rumors just got kicked up five notchesBut Graham wasn’t quite finished blasting Biden’s decision, despite the fact that he was one of three Republican senators who voted to confirm Jackson to her current position on the DC Court of Appeals less than one year ago.