Republicans for judicial appointments, but he had also said he wanted the courts to move in a more conservative direction. Running for president, Mitt Romney said that he would not apply a litmus test when nominating justices for the Supreme Court. "We don't have a litmus test for appointing judges, asking them if they're pro-life or not pro-life." During the campaign, he also stated that he would nominate judges who were similar to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, former Justice Antonin Scalia, and Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. In 2018, running for the US Senate, Romney said that he would have voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. In May 2019, Senator Romney broke with his party and was the only Republican to vote against President Trump's district court judicial nominee, Michael Truncale, because of remarks that Truncale made against former President Obama. In October 2020, he voted to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. In April 2022, Romney announced his support to confirm Biden's nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and he was one of three Republicans (joined by Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski) to vote with all Democrats in a 53-47 procedural Senate vote to advance Jackson's nomination. On April 7, 2022, he voted to confirm Jackson to the Supreme Court. See also Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012 Political positions of Barack Obama References External links Issues at MittRomney.com (official campaign site) Research Collection at WhyRomney.com Issues at MittRomneyCentral.com Issues at On the Issues Issues at PoliticalJab.com Mitt Romney - campaign contributions Mitt Romney, Rising to a New Generation of Global Challenges, Foreign Affairs, July 1, 2007 Mitt Romney's foreign policy issues at the Council on Foreign Relations Romney & environmental issues at the League of Conservation Voters, 2008 Mitt Romney Political positions of state governors of the United States Political positions of the 2008 United States presidential candidates Political positions of the 2012 United States presidential candidates