President Joe Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former public defender and current judge on a powerful appeals court circuit, to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
Jackson has been a federal judge since 2013, serving first as a trial judge in DC. In 2021, Biden elevated her to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. As a federal public defender from 2005 to 2007, she represented some of the country’s most vulnerable people. If confirmed, Judge Jackson will be the first Black woman ever to sit on the Supreme Court.
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The paradox of Ketanji Brown Jackson
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson listens during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC, on March 21. Jacquelyn Martin/APEditor’s note, June 30, 12:10 pm: Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn into office as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court on Thursday, June 30, after Justice Stephen Breyer retired. The following story text was last updated after her Senate confirmation vote in April.
Well, it’s official. The Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, April 7, by a 53-47 vote.
Read Article >The next steps for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination, briefly explained
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives for the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC, on March 23. Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe Senate is set to vote on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination by the end of this week now that lawmakers have cleared it from the Judiciary Committee.
On Monday evening, the Senate voted 53-47 to discharge Jackson’s nomination from the Judiciary Committee after members of the panel deadlocked along partisan lines on it earlier in the day.
Read Article >What we actually learned from Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on March 23, 2022. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesMuch of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing was extremely predictable.
Because Jackson is widely expected to be confirmed, the hearing was often less a review of her record than a platform for lawmakers to send a message. Still, there were some revealing moments.
Read Article >The GOP’s attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson are nasty even by Republican standards
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on March 22, 2022. Win McNamee/Getty ImagesOne day after Republican senators promised they wouldn’t levy personal attacks against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, several of them generated a storm of misleading — and often offensive — attacks against her.
On Monday, the first day of Jackson’s confirmation hearing, several Republicans complained about the way that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was treated prior to his confirmation, after Kavanaugh was credibly accused of sexually assaulting a woman while he was in high school.
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