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Mar 25 2022
News
Republican Senators Say No Boycott Planned for Jackson Committee Vote
WASHINGTON—Republican senators indicated Thursday that they don’t plan to take steps to significantly delay or block the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who wrapped up her testimony a day earlier and is on track for a vote early next month.
Democrats also remained hopeful that they could pick up some GOP support for her confirmation, after increasingly
Wall Street Journal (News)
Mar 24 2022
Opinion
Why a 'war on abortion' is doomed to fail
Often, the fate of Roe v. Wade looms over the confirmation hearing of any prospective Supreme Court justice. This time feels different. This week, Ketanji Brown Jackson takes questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee as the Supreme Court continues to deliberate whether it will undermine the fundamental right to abortion when it rules on a Mississippi statute that bans abortions after 15
CNN (Online News)
Mar 24 2022
News
Historic hearing takes turn into familiar territory on race and crime, experts say
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings may have been historic, in that she is the first Black woman nominated for the Supreme Court.
But they have not been without precedent, at least with regard to questions on crime and race that she faced from some Republican senators, such as Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who have tried to portray her as "soft on crime."
Civil rights
NBC News (Online)
Apr 07 2022
Opinion
Historic Supreme Court confirmation comes at a time when some in the GOP are trying to reverse LGBTQ rights
It's a curious time for equality in the US.
On the one hand, Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as the first Black woman US Supreme Court justice on Thursday. On the other hand, there are legitimate concerns about what the future might hold for the members of certain marginalized groups, including LGBTQ Americans.
Take a striking point of contention during Jackson's confirmation
CNN (Opinion)
Apr 06 2022
Opinion
Mitt’s Mistake
I happen to think Mitt Romney is a pretty good member of the United States Senate. Disagreements aside, he brings ideas and a unique kind of independence to the job.
Especially disagreeable, in my estimation, however, is the statement he’s released announcing that he will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
In a world where members of both parties
National Review
Mar 22 2022
Analysis
Read the Letter Biden’s SCOTUS Pick Wrote Calling a Journalist ‘Irredeemably Evil’
While clerking for a federal judge, Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson denounced a Boston Herald columnist as "irredeemably evil" for criticizing unrestricted immigration.
Jackson wrote a letter to the editor of the Herald in response to a piece from columnist Don Feder that noted that the population of white people in America could decrease steeply as a result of open
Washington Free Beacon
Apr 19 2022
News
Massive increase in Black Americans murdered was result of defund police movement: experts
Support of Black Lives Matter and calls to defund the police reverberated across America in 2020 following the death of George Floyd, igniting social justice protests and riots at a time when the coronavirus and lockdowns upended society in unprecedented ways. What was left in 2020's wake was a massive increase in the number of murders, dealing a disproportionate blow to Black Americans.
Fox News (Online News)
Apr 28 2022
News
Disgraced general to far-right hero: Michael Flynn rides the next wave
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser is rallying the faithful and looking to future elections. He’s become an icon for a GOP base that’s increasingly suspicious of a corrupt “deep state” and elites.
The sun has already set outside the white-walled church as Michael Flynn walks onstage. The crowd inside the 1,100-capacity auditorium has thinned some after 10 hours of speeches
Christian Science Monitor
Aug 24 2014
News
State of emergency declared after Calif. quake
California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Napa, Solano, and Sonoma counties Sunday after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake rattled Northern California early Sunday, leaving dozens wounded, thousands without power and hundreds of buildings damaged.
The quake struck at 3:20 a.m. PT near American Canyon about 6 miles southwest of Napa, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It's
USA TODAY
Feb 14 2013
News
Gov. Moonbeam's Mystique
California Gov. Jerry Brown's State of the State address Thursday was befitting someone nicknamed Governor Moonbeam. The 74-year-old Democrat used the occasion to highlight his policy objectives and achievements. But more importantly, he took advantage of the opportunity to demonstrate his quirky governing style and philosophy.
Mr. Brown began by recalling the biblical story in which
Allysia Finley (Wall Street Journal)