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Senators were warned Monday that history would be their judge as they launched marathon confirmation hearings to consider the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman to serve on the US Supreme Court.
President Joe Biden’s pick to join the nation’s highest court was formally introduced at the start of televised hearings which are set to be followed by two days of questioning and a day of testimony from outside witnesses.
“Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is a brilliant legal mind with the utmost character and integrity,” Biden tweeted ahead of the hearing.
“She deserves to be confirmed as the next Justice of the Supreme Court.”
Jackson, a 51-year-old former federal public defender with almost a decade of experience on lower courts, served as a law clerk to Stephen Breyer, the retiring liberal justice she is being nominated to replace.
Democratic leaders plan a final Senate vote by early April, with focus on the court sharpened by the weekend hospitalization of 73-year-old conservative Clarence Thomas, its second Black justice in history, with “flu-like symptoms.”
Thomas is expected to be released from hospital in the next day or two.
Jackson is the first Black woman tapped for a seat on the court and would also be the first nominee of a Democratic president to be confirmed to the Supreme Court since Elena Kagan in 2010.
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