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The U.S. 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.
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.
Former Judge Thomas B. Griffith speaks at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Screenshot via C-SPAN A retired federal
Ketanji Brown Jackson addressed the Senate Judiciary Committee at the end of her first day of confirmation hearings.