Ketanji Brown Jackson by every legal and judicial standard is almost a judicial central casting SCOTUS pick. Her credentials are impeccable. She has garnered loads of awards for legal acumen. She was confirmed by the Senate, which included several GOP senators, three times. She has a near storybook, compelling personal life experience resume.
Most of all, the GOP already has a conservative to ultra-conservative near lock on the SCOTUS. Jackson on the SCOTUS will do absolutely nothing to change that. She will still be part of a very distinct moderate to the liberal minority on the bench. Confirming Jackson then should at worst have been just a day or two of token theatrics by a couple of GOP senators strictly for show. Then move quickly to confirm her with ideally two or three GOP senators voting for confirmation to at least give the vote a smidgen of bipartisanship. That didn’t happen for a very horrible reason, in fact, two horrible reasons...
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