The Senate Judiciary Committee gave a tied vote to advance Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination Monday, following ranking Republican committee member Senator Charles Grassley’s (R-IA) announcement that he would not vote in her favor.

After the 11-11 vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) called for a floor vote to break the deadlock for which all Democrats and Republican Senators Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, and Lisa Murkowski voted in support of Jackson. This sends her nomination to the floor for an anticipated confirmation vote before Congress recesses after this week. In a statement released Monday morning Senator Grassley says he and Jackson have “fundamentally different views on the role judges should play in our system of government.”

Grassley shared his concerns to KCII on Jackson not answering questions fully during last week’s nomination hearings on matters such as court packing and her supposedly being “soft on crime.” He says the “most ridiculous” moment was when she couldn’t answer Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s question on whether humans possess natural rights, “It would have been real easy for her to say yes if she believes what she quoted from the Constitution, or I mean from the Declaration of Independence, because it’s pretty clear that we don’t get our rights from the government, we get them from God, or maybe in the case of Senator Cruz’s question you say from nature. In other words if government gave us our rights one day they could take them away the next.”

Jackson quoted the theory that all men are created equal and are endowed with such rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. Jackson sits on the federal court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit and would be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. You can hear more from Grassley during Tuesday’s Halcyon House Washington Page on air and at kciiradio.com.