The clearest outline of the GOP’s emerging case against Jackson came from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who on Thursday telegraphed the range of attacks she can anticipate: that her background as a public defender means she’s soft on crime, that she won’t commit to opposing Supreme Court expansion, that she’s being promoted by so-called “dark money” groups.

The White House has worked hard to fend off in advance such attacks — by, for instance, swiftly rolling out endorsements from police groups and highlighting her family’s deep background in law enforcement — and to line up conservative legal luminaries willing to speak on the judge’s behalf. No Republican senators have disputed Jackson’s qualifications, which include nine years on the federal bench, a Supreme Court clerkship and a pair of degrees from Harvard…

The criticism of Jackson from the conservative world outside the Senate has been harsher. Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday mocked her name — calling it “a name that even Joe Biden has trouble pronouncing” — and demanded to see her LSAT scores, a message many of Jackson’s supporters saw as racist.