Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, slammed President Joe Biden's determination to appoint Kentanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Courtroom—suggesting she was the "radical Left" alternative regardless of beforehand supporting her affirmation to be a U.S. circuit decide for the District of Columbia lower than a yr in the past.

The White Home confirmed on Friday that Biden would seem on the White Home together with Jackson to ship remarks about his determination to appoint the decide to function an affiliate justice on the nation's highest court docket. Whereas Graham was one of some Republicans to vote for Jackson when she was nominated to the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, he's now expressing reservations,

"The President will ship remarks on his nomination of Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson to function Affiliate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Courtroom. Choose Jackson will even ship remarks, and the Vice President [Kamala Harris] will attend," the White Home stated Friday in a day by day steerage e mail to journalists. CNN first broke the story, citing an nameless supply.

Graham, who beforehand chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from January 2019 to February 2021, responded negatively to the information of Biden's determination.

"If media reviews are correct, and Choose Jackson has been chosen because the Supreme Courtroom nominee to interchange Justice Breyer, it means the unconventional Left has received President Biden over but once more," the Republican senator tweeted Friday morning.

"The assaults by the Left on Choose [Michelle] Childs from South Carolina apparently labored," he added. Beforehand, Graham publicly urged Childs could be a superb nominee for Biden to pick out.

"I count on a respectful however attention-grabbing listening to within the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Harvard-Yale practice to the Supreme Courtroom continues to run unabated," the GOP lawmaker added.

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President Joe Biden on Friday confirmed that he was nominating Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Courtroom. Above, Jackson is sworn in to testify earlier than a Senate Judiciary Committee listening to after she was nominated to serve on the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the District of Columbia, on Capitol Hill on April 28, 2021, in Washington, D.C. KEVIN LAMARQUE-POOL/GETTY IMAGES

When Jackson's nomination to the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was up for a vote within the Senate final June, Graham was one in every of simply three Republicans to vote in her favor. The opposite two GOP senators have been Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. These three Republicans have all voted in favor of at the very least 60 % of Biden's judicial nominees, in line with Politico.

In contrast to many different Republicans, Graham has defended the president's dedication to pick out a Black girl to serve on the Supreme Courtroom. "Put me within the camp of constructing certain the court docket and different establishments appear to be America," the South Carolina senator informedCBS Information' Face the Nation on the finish of January.

"Within the historical past of our nation we have solely had 5 girls serve and two African American males," Graham stated. "So let's make the court docket extra like America, however qualifications must be the most important consideration."

In that very same interview, the senator touted his assist for Childs to be nominated to the Supreme Courtroom. Childs was appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2009 to function a U.S. district decide of the District Courtroom for the District of South Carolina.

"She has extensive assist in our state. She's thought of to be a fair-minded and extremely gifted jurist. She's probably the most first rate individuals I've ever met," Graham stated. "Michelle Childs is extremely certified."

In a Friday Twitter publish, Biden praised Jackson and touted his nomination of her to nation's high court docket.

"I am proud to announce that I'm nominating Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Courtroom. At the moment serving on the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, she is one in every of our nation's brightest authorized minds and will probably be an distinctive Justice," the president wrote.

Newsweek reached out to a Graham spokesperson for remark however didn't instantly obtain a response.