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Burr, Tillis to vote against Jackson confirmation to U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson smiles as Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., arrives for a meeting in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington last week. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Neither of North Carolina's U.S. senators support confirming Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to the bench. 

Republican Richard Burr announced last week that he will vote “no” on Jackson's nomination.

Burr says he met with Jackson to discuss her experience and judicial philosophy. His main concern in that meeting was her views on expanding the number of justices on the court.

Burr says he found her answers on the subject in the meeting and in testimony during her confirmation hearing to be unsatisfactory. Therefore, while he says she is highly qualified, knowledgeable and experienced, he cannot support her nomination.

Burr's announcement followed a similar statement by fellow North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis, who says he also plans to vote against Jackson's nomination.

Tillis, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he nevertheless still expects Jackson to be confirmed and wishes her well on the nation's highest court.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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