In this op-ed, Alesha Ignatius Brereton (LAW’22) reflects on what it was like to be in person at the US Capitol for the confirmation hearing of US Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Her nomination “has become a touchpoint for so many of us who recognize our own experiences in hers,” Brereton writes. Watching her respond to unfair, and at times cruel, questions had an air of the familiar “That feeling of having to explain our every decision and choice in excruciating detail, because we don’t have the luxury of the benefit of the doubt that others receive.”