5 things to know Monday

Supreme Court docket choose Ketanji Brown Jackson might face fireworks at listening to

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the primary Black girl nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court docket, faces the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday for the primary in what shall be a whirlwind week of hearings. If confirmed, Jackson could be the 116th justice and the primary Black girl seated on the nation’s highest courtroom in its 233-year-history. Whereas Jackson’s affirmation would not change the ideological make-up of the courtroom, her background as a former federal public defender and a member of the U.S. Sentencing Fee might have a giant affect. However first, Jackson, a decide on the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, has to navigate the type of politics jurists usually wish to keep away from. Monday’s listening to shall be all speak and no questions, with senators – and Jackson herself – providing rigorously scripted opening statements that will supply some clues about how the subsequent few days will go. 

Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized

Supreme Court docket Affiliate Justice Clarence Thomas stays hospitalized Monday whereas being handled for an an infection, courtroom officers mentioned. Thomas, essentially the most senior affiliate justice on the excessive courtroom, is being handled with intravenous antibiotics, the courtroom mentioned, and his signs are bettering. The Supreme Court docket mentioned Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Friday after experiencing flu-like signs, and expects to be launched in a day or two. Thomas didn’t have COVID-19, the courtroom mentioned. Court docket officers mentioned Thomas intends to participate in contemplating instances by courtroom data and recordings of oral argument for the times he can’t be there in individual or remotely. 

Biden to host name with European leaders on Ukraine, Russia

President Joe Biden will host a name Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to “focus on their coordinated responses to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified assault on Ukraine,” the White Home mentioned. The decision among the many world leaders will precede Biden’s deliberate journey to Europe this week the place he’ll cease at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, after which journey Friday to Poland. It’s going to additionally come after the pounding of Mariupol intensified Sunday, and as Russia’s bloody assault on Ukraine waded deeper into its fourth week. The Mariupol metropolis council accused the Russian navy of bombing an artwork faculty the place about 400 individuals had taken shelter. The Ukraine authorities estimates that 2,300 individuals have died within the ongoing siege of Mariupol alone.

Police nonetheless looking for suspect in taking pictures that left 1 lifeless, 28 injured

One individual was in custody and a search was underway for an additional shooter Monday after a rampage at a southeast Arkansas automotive present left a minimum of one individual lifeless and 28 wounded, police mentioned. An organizer mentioned the automotive present was one in every of a number of occasions held Saturday to advertise non-violence in Dumas, a city of lower than 5,000 individuals about 90 miles south of Little Rock. Six youngsters beneath the age of 11, together with two toddlers, have been delivered to Arkansas Youngsters’s Hospital in Little Rock, and 5 had been launched, Arkansas State Police Colonel Invoice Bryant mentioned Sunday. Bryant recognized the deadly sufferer as 23-year-old Cameron Shaffer of Jacksonville, Arkansas. Dumas Police Chief Keith Finch mentioned the automotive present was in full swing when “a number of gunmen started taking pictures.” 

No. 1 Seed NC State, No. 2 Seed UConn each in motion in ladies’s NCAA match

The Spherical of 32 within the ladies’s NCAA match wraps up Monday, with powerhouses resembling No. 1 seed N.C. State and No. 2 seed UConn each hoping to punch tickets to the Candy 16. The highest-seeded Wolfpack will face off in opposition to No. 9 seed Kansas State at 4 p.m. ET on ESPN. N.C. State cruised to a victory in its earlier sport in opposition to Longwood, whereas Kansas State earned a 10-point win in opposition to Washington State in its first sport on this match. Later Monday, UConn will tackle No. 7 seed UCF at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN. The Huskies will attempt to keep away from changing into the third No. 2 seed on this yr’s match to fall within the Spherical of 32, with Baylor and Iowa each shedding on Sunday.