Jackson faces Senate in Day 1 of confirmation hearing
She would be the first Black female Supreme Court justice, and the first with significant criminal defense experience since Thurgood Marshall.
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She would be the first Black female Supreme Court justice, and the first with significant criminal defense experience since Thurgood Marshall.
Democrats sought to preemptively rebut Republican criticism of her record on criminal matters as a judge and before that, as a federal public defender and a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
By MARK SHERMAN and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee begins historic confirmation hearings...
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee opened Supreme Court confirmation hearings Monday, with Republicans promising pointed questions for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and Democrats full of praise for the first Black woman nominated for the nation’s highest court. Jackson, 51, was to give her opening statement later Monday and answer