Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will make history Monday as she goes before a Senate panel considering her nomination to be the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. Picture: BLOOMBERG
In the first of four days of hearings, Jackson will listen as senators give opening statements geared as much towards this year’s elections as to her confirmation. Democrats are likely to extol her qualifications and criticise the court, while Republicans will seek to use her criminal-defence background as a way to question President Joe Biden’s commitment to law and order.
She would join Justice Sonia Sotomayor as the only two current justices with experience as a US district judge, a position Jackson held for eight years before Biden elevated her to a powerful federal appeals court in Washington. Her nomination so far hasn’t produced the type of political fireworks that surrounded President Donald Trump’s picks — Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
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