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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
VoxJun 29 2023
News
Clarence Thomas, Ketanji Brown Jackson air sharp disagreement on race in America
The only two Black members of the Supreme Court — Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson — openly traded barbs in their opinions Thursday as the high court dealt what may be a death blow to the use of race in college admissions.
That they would disagree on the subject is hardly surprising. Thomas, the court’s longest serving justice and perhaps its most conservative member,
PoliticoMar 28 2022
Fact Check
Did Ketanji Brown Jackson Want to Release Inmates During the Pandemic?
During Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing this week, Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn claimed Jackson “consistently called for greater freedom for hardened criminals.” More specifically, Blackburn, of Tennessee, said: “At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. You advocated—again I quote—‘for each and every criminal defendant in D.C. Department of Corrections custody
The Dispatch Fact CheckMar 25 2022
News
Manchin backs Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
Sen. Joe Manchin Friday said that he will support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court, as the nominee inches closer to confirmation.
"After meeting with her, considering her record, and closely monitoring her testimony and questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, I have determined I intend to vote for her nomination to serve on the Supreme Court,"
Fox News (Online News)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
VoxMar 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)Feb 25 2022
News
AP Source: Biden taps Ketanji Brown Jackson for high court
President Joe Biden on Friday will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, according to a person familiar with the matter, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.
In Jackson, Biden delivers on a campaign promise to make the historic appointment and
Associated Press Fact CheckNov 30 2022
News
Ketanji Brown Jackson swipes at Biden DOJ during SCOTUS immigration case
Supreme Court oral arguments in a key immigration case grew heated Tuesday as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s first nominee to the court, rejected the White House’s interpretation of federal law.
Jackson accused Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar of having a “conceptual problem” in her understanding of the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires the federal
New York Post (News)Jun 30 2022
News
Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as Supreme Court justice, replacing Stephen Breyer
Ketanji Brown Jackson is making history Thursday as the first-ever black woman sworn in as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jackson, 51, replaces Justice Stephen Breyer, whose resignation from the Supreme Court becomes effective at noon after his nearly 28 years of service there.
CNBCJun 30 2022
News
Ketanji Brown Jackson Becomes First Black Woman Supreme Court Justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson took the judicial oath just after noon on Thursday, becoming the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
Justice Jackson, 51, was confirmed in April, when the Senate voted 53 to 47 on her nomination. She is replacing Justice Stephen G. Breyer, 83, who stepped down with the conclusion of the court’s current term.
New York Times (News)