Legal experts and interest groups on Thursday will weigh in on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court.
as the Senate Judiciary Committee wraps up four days of hearings on her historic nomination to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.over two days about her sentencing of criminal defendants, her bid to join the Supreme Court veering from lofty constitutional questions to attacks on her motivations on the bench.
On Wednesday, her final day of Senate questioning, Jackson declared she would rule "without any agendas" as the high court's first Black female justice and rejected Republican efforts to paint her as soft on crime in her decade on the federal bench. In more than 22 hours of hearings, GOP senators aggressively questioned Jackson on the sentences she has handed down to child pornography offenders in her nine years as a federal judge, her legal advocacy on behalf of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, her thoughts on critical race theory and even her religious views.
Sen. Ted Cruz's questioning of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson led to a heated argument between Cruz and the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Dick Durbin. Cruz was questioning Brown Jackson about her sentencing record. The sustained focus on her record suggested that, contrary to Democratic hopes, Jackson’s confirmation vote in the full Senate is unlikely to garner much, if any, Republican support. Still, several Republicans acknowledged that she is likely to be on the court. Democrats can confirm her without any bipartisan support in the 50-50 Senate as Vice President Kamala Harris can cast the tiebreaking vote.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson tells senators she would defend the Constitution and decide cases "without fear or favor" if she is confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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