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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson emerged from the marathon U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings with solidified Democratic support for her nomination but with uncertainty over whether she would receive any yes votes from Republicans.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson emerged from the marathon U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings with solidified Democratic support for her nomination but with uncertainty over whether she would receive any yes votes from Republicans.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Andrew M. Luger to be the U.S. attorney for Minnesota on Thursday in a bipartisan vote after he and other U.S. nominees had been kept from quick confirmations because of an ongoing objection from a Republican senator.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday sparred with Republican lawmakers pressing her to lay out a specific judicial philosophy, insisted that her decade of rulings has been based on a methodical approach to deciding cases and vigorously defended her trial court record against accusations that she had given lenient sentences to sex offenders.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson repeatedly stressed the "limited authority" of the judiciary and spelled out her methodology for approaching cases to ensure impartiality as she faced hours of probing and at times highly contentious questions from senators Tuesday on her life, record and judicial philosophy during the second day of her U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings.