WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 8: Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in Collins' office on Capitol Hill March 8, 2022 in Washington, DC. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson continued to meet with Senate members on Capitol Hill ahead of her confirmation hearings. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
(CNN) — Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine will vote to confirm President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, she told The New York Times in an interview published on Wednesday, the first GOP senator to do so.
“I have decided to support the confirmation of Judge Jackson to be a member of the Supreme Court,” Collins told the Times after meeting with Jackson earlier this week.
CNN has reached out to Collins’ office for comment.
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