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Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson may face fireworks at hearing
WASHINGTON – Even Republicans acknowledge President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court docket, Decide Ketanji Brown Jackson, seems to be on a glide path to affirmation.
That doesn’t imply her Senate Judiciary Committee hearings that begin Monday will probably be with out bumps, sudden turns and high-flown presidential politicking.
For hundreds of thousands of People, the four-day spectacle will probably be an introduction to Jackson, a Harvard-educated federal appeals courtroom decide and the primary Black lady named to the Supreme Court docket. The hearings will probably be an examination of her report and an effort to foretell what sort of justice she could be if confirmed for a lifetime appointment on a courtroom that’s wrestling with points corresponding to abortion, voting rights, weapons and local weather change.