Indiana Senator Mike Braun is signaling he’s leaning against voting to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, but says he won’t make a final decision till after her confirmation hearings:

Braun says Republicans are digging into Jackson’s record on two lower courts. He says Jackson “seems well-qualified,” but says Jackson will have to give “a pretty strong explanation” of her philosophy and past rulings.

Braun predicts all Democrats will vote for Jackson. With Vice President Kamala Harris available to cast a tiebreaking vote if needed, that’s enough to guarantee Jackson’s confirmation as the third African-American justice and first black woman on the court. And Braun says “three or four” Republicans are leaning yes.

Braun says he won’t support any Supreme Court nominee he views as activist, pointing to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which legalized abortion as a prime example of judicial overreach. He says most such issues should be left to the states, not the federal courts — even, he said on a conference call with reporters, the 1967 ruling which struck down state bans on interracial marriage.

“Within our federal system, there are going to be rules and proceedings that are going to be out of sync with maybe what other states would do,” Braun says. “That’s where the differences among points of view in our 50 states ought to express themselves….It’s hard to have [judicial intervention] on issues that you just are interested in, when you deny it for others with a different point of view.

“They’re not all going to make you happy within a given state, but we’re better off having states manifest their points of view, rather than homogenizing it across the country as Roe v. Wade did.”

Indiana’s senior senator, Todd Young (R), hasn’t said how he’ll vote on Jackson’s confirmation either.