On Monday's broadcast of CNN's "Situation Room," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman and Senate Majority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated that criticisms of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's record on crime from some Republicans are because Republicans accuse "every" Biden judicial nominee of being soft on crime to push the issue for the 2022 elections and because "there are some of them that are still struggling to accept" an African American female public defender would be "a good asset to the Supreme Court."