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"The nastiness is the same," one historian told Insider, comparing the treatment of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the first Senate confirmation hearing in 1916 when a Jewish man, Justice Louis Brandeis, was nominated to serve on the Supreme Court.
The first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court is likely to face questioning that would have been familiar to Thurgood Marshall.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court is likely to face questioning at her Senate hearing that would have been familiar to Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man who served on the high court.
The first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court is likely to face questioning at her Senate hearing that would have been familiar to Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man who served on the high court.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court is likely to face questioning at her Senate hearing that would have been familiar to Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man who served on the high court.