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As Kamala Harris made history in her speech accepting the vice presidential nomination in 2020, she broke into a broad grin as she invoked the name of her hero: Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge. Eighteen months later, Motley’s memory was summoned again, this time by
The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on party lines — 11-11 — barring any unforeseen circumstances, but there are ways, in which, the panel or the Senate Democrats in power can still put her nomination to a confirmation vote in the days to come. If confirmed, Jackson will be the first Black woman […]
By Chandelis Duster and Priya Krishnakumar, CNN As the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court has ignited a discussion about the historic lack of diversity on the nation’s highest court, her ascendance has also renewed focus on the absence of Black judges on the federal judiciary’s lower courts. Of the 3,852 people […]
CNN — As the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court has ignited a discussion about the historic lack of diversity on the nation’s highest court, her ascendance has also renewed focus on the absence of Black judges on the federal judiciary’s lower courts.
Former U.S. senator Doug Jones was “blown away” with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, he tweeted Sunday. “This past week,” Jones wrote, “has only reinforced my belief that she is not only immensely qualified, but truly a justice for this moment that our country find(s) itself in.” This February, Jones was named U.S. […]
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson did what she needed to do this week. After sitting through hours of attacks on her character and legal judgment, Jackson is poised to be confirmed as the next associate justice of the Supreme Court. If so, she will become the first Black woman and the third Black justice to join […]
What is the Cosmos Club? Ketanji Brown Jackson’s DC group, explained. The Washington Post Source link
Jordan Simpson, a 25-year-old aspiring lawyer in Valdosta, Ga., was excited to watch the Senate confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, until Senator Ted Cruz’s line of questioning made her feel something else: discouraged. The treatment of Judge Jackson in the hearing reminded . . .
Ketanji Brown Jackson will become the first Black woman to serve as a judge in the US Supreme Court. With this, she will be joining the esteemed club of Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee […]
For many of the Black women who gathered on the steps of the US supreme court this week, the confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson – likely to become the country’s first Black female supreme court justice – were a moment of pride, joy, inspiration and validation. Black women turned out in record numbers […]