GOP seeks to make Jackson part of broader Biden midterm war

Republicans don’t have the votes to stop Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson from being confirmed to the Supreme Court — but they hope to use her nomination battle to advance their political war against Democrats, with an eye to the midterm elections.

The GOP’s game plan is to fit Jackson’s story into a bigger narrative that casts President Biden and his party as soft on crime and preoccupied with identity politics and “wokeness.”