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WASHINGTON — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson emerged on Wednesday from two grueling days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee having weathered escalating Republican attacks on her record but leaving Democrats confident that she would become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. Questioning of President Biden’s nominee by Republicans grew increasingly hostile as […]
A Black woman once approached me in an airport lounge, gave me a compliment about my hair and asked if it was in dreadlocks. I confirmed it was and we had a conversation about locs, including how she was thinking about getting them herself. Her only hesitation, she said, was that it might be seen […]
Former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, the Biden administration’s sherpa for Jackson as she undergoes the Senate confirmation process, followed Monday’s opening statements by previewing what to expect from Jackson on Tuesday. “What I think you’re gonna hear from Judge Jackson tomorrow is the way she goes about judging and a process and a methodology that […]
Washington: The US Senate takes up the historic nomination on Monday of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee is to hold four days of confirmation hearings beginning on Monday for President Joe Biden’s choice for the highest US court. Senate hearings […]
During Judge Jackson’s ascent through the federal judiciary, during which she received some Republican support in confirmation votes, she was questioned more than once about the role of race in the justice system. Responding to such a question from Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, during her confirmation process to join the U.S. Court of […]
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is set to begin her Supreme Court confirmation hearings on Monday. If confirmed, it will not only mark the first time the court seats a Black female justice, but also the first time two Black justices have served at the same time. While the Harvard graduate’s confirmation wouldn’t shift the ideological […]
Alabama’s first Black federal judge, U.W. Clemon, who wrote letters to President Joe Biden urging him not to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court, still opposes her but won’t testify against her, he told AL.com. “I will not testify against her before the senate judiciary committee,” said Clemon, former chief judge of […]
Published 2022-03-14 08:41 8:41 March 14, 2022 am In the days and weeks leading up to the announcement that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would be the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House and groups supporting her nomination prepared for potential lines of attack. The possibilities were fairly predictable, with […]
The organization supporting Jackson represents a network of 145 Black Chambers of Commerce in cities across the nation. U.S. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the nominee chosen by President Joe Biden to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court, has been endorsed by the U.S. Black Chambers. Per The Hill, the U.S. […]
U.S. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the nominee chosen by President Joe Biden to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court, has been endorsed by the U.S. Black Chambers. Per The Hill, the U.S. Black Chambers represents a network of 145 Black Chambers of Commerce and black-owned business organizations from cities across the nation. […]