{"id":46729,"date":"2022-03-30T09:18:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46729"},"modified":"2022-03-30T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:18:18","slug":"collins-to-back-jackson-for-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46729","title":{"rendered":"Collins to back Jackson for Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) on Wednesday said she would support Ketanji Brown Jackson&#8217;s nomination to the Supreme Court, becoming the first Republican to back her for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After reviewing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s extensive record, watching much of her hearing testimony, and meeting with her twice in person, I have concluded that she possesses the experience, qualifications, and integrity to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court,&#8221; Collins said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will, therefore, vote to confirm her to this position,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) on Wednesday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46730,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46729\/revisions\/46730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}