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Mar 24 2022
News
Republicans turn Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing into a political circus
At 2.54pm on the second day of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings that will determine whether she takes a seat on the US supreme court, the solemn proceedings took a nosedive into farce.
Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from Texas, turned theatrically to an outsized blow-up of a children’s book, Antiracist Baby by Ibram X Kendi. Pointing to a cartoon from its pages of an
The Guardian
Mar 23 2022
Opinion
Why Republicans Keep Accusing Ketanji Brown Jackson of Helping Child Predators
ON TUESDAY, the second day of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation hearings, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked the esteemed jurist whether she believed that “babies are racist.”
It was a low point that came early on in the contemptible GOP questioning.
Cruz displayed large printouts from a children’s book, “Antiracist Baby” by Ibram X. Kendi, which
The Intercept
Mar 23 2022
Opinion
The GOP’s attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson are nasty even by Republican standards
One 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
Vox
Mar 22 2022
News
Ketanji Brown Jackson: Key moments as Biden's Supreme Court pick quizzed
US President Joe Biden's Supreme Court pick is taking questions on her career and record from lawmakers on a key Senate panel over the next two days.
If the 22-member Judiciary Committee advances Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination, she will be considered by a vote of the full 100-member Senate.
If confirmed, she would replace liberal Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires at the
BBC News
Mar 21 2022
News
Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson backed by majority of Americans: poll
A majority of Americans believe that the Senate should confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and say it is important to have a black woman on the high court to reflect the country’s diversity, according to a new poll out Monday.
The Monmouth University survey found that 55 percent of respondents say Jackson should be confirmed, 21 percent disagree and 24 percent say
New York Post (News)
Mar 21 2022
News
Confirmation hearings begin for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, as Democrats aim to confirm the first Black woman justice and many Republicans search for a unified message to oppose her.
Democrats have touted President Joe Biden's pick as a qualified, "historic" nominee, while Republicans have criticized her record on crime and the support she holds from
CNN (Online News)
Mar 21 2022
News
Ketanji Brown Jackson brings varied legal resume to U.S. Supreme Court
If confirmed as its first Black woman justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson would add not only racial and gender diversity to the U.S. Supreme Court but would also bring a varied legal background including a stint representing low-income criminal defendants.
Jackson, 51, served early in her career as a Supreme Court clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer, whose retirement announced in January
Reuters
Mar 21 2022
News
Senate Confirmation Hearings Set to Open for Ketanji Brown Jackson
The Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings Monday for President Biden’s first Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who if confirmed would succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Judge Jackson once clerked for Justice Breyer, a continuity that points to a lower temperature for this week’s proceedings than for those arising from the last three vacancies, which
Wall Street Journal (News)
Mar 21 2022
Analysis
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing will be a forum for political attacks
There’s very little reason to doubt Ketanji Brown Jackson will be confirmed and become the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice. She doesn’t need to garner any Republican support in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and her ascension in place of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer won’t shift the ideological makeup of the court.
But this week’s hearings to vet the historic
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