By the end of this week, the Senate will be voting on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the Supreme Court seat being vacated by retiring Justice Breyer. Anyone who watched the Senate committee hearings (or read about them) knows that the Republicans were just awful, turning it into a partisan "gotcha" show with stupid questions and grandstanding. When it came time to vote on whether to advance her nomination to the full Senate, the vote was tied at 11-11.
This required getting the full Senate to vote on the advancement to.... the full Senate.
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