.MaddowBlog: Polls suggest the attempted Republican slander did not undermine public support for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination.
, about 53% of Americans supported her confirmation, with about 26% of Americans opposed. This is good for a +27-point net popularity rating.”found that the judge isn’t especially well known, but Jackson nevertheless enjoys “the highest net support rating of any Supreme Court nominee since 2005.”, so there’s no reason to assume his nominee would necessarily enjoy broad public support.
What’s more, Republicans took the judge’s confirmation hearings in an unusually ugly direction. Their lines of attack, among other things, included “
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