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Pictured is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson has rejected frivolous GOP attacks on her record and said during testimony at a U.S. Senate hearing this week on her nomination that "nothing could be further from the truth." Below is a synopsis from U.S. Senate hearings, which are ongoing for now, on her nomination to the Supreme Court, Jackson Brown the first Black woman nominated to the nation's highest court
- -President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson answered senators’ questions about her record and judicial philosophy during the second day of her confirmation hearings.
- -Jackson told senators a day earlier that she looks at her cases “from a neutral posture” and applies the law “without fear or favor.”
- -The hearing marks the first time lawmakers will be able to directly cross-examine Jackson under oath in a public forum since she was nominated to the Supreme Court. The federal judge previously met privately with senators on Capitol Hill.
- -Jackson, a 51-year-old judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, if confirmed would become the first Black woman to sit on the U.S. high court.
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