Supreme Court confirmation hearing begins for Ketanji Brown Jackson
Jackson has won Senate confirmation three times, most recently last summer when Biden named her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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Jackson has won Senate confirmation three times, most recently last summer when Biden named her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Jackson has won Senate confirmation three times, most recently last summer when Biden named her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
This column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News.
We should rejoice that the eminently qualified Judge Jackson will be the first Black woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court. She won't be the last.
It isn’t quite accurate to say that Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court. Just over 50 years ago, Pauli Murray nominated herself, which isn’t even the most impressive thing she accomplished in her remarkable life.