'I have dedicated my career to ensuring that the words engraved on the front of the Supreme Court building, equal justice under law, are a reality and not just an ideal,” Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said during her opening statement Monday.
Appellate Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is President Joe Biden’s pick to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court and Monday marked the beginning of her formal approval process.
“This nominee in particular will be very careful about a lot of the politically divisive issues that the senators are going to ask about. Not only because it’s tradition, but because the court is hearing a lot of those issues right now,” said Amanda Savage, an associate professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago. “So the court has pending cases on abortion. It has pending cases on immigration law, on gerrymandering.
Democrats, on the other hand, say Jackson’s experience as a public defender, along with her work as a federal district judge and member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, make her a strong contender for the Supreme Court. Sen. Patrick Leahy said Monday her varied background makes her a “mastery of our justice system.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee will then vote whether or not to confirm her, followed by a full Senate vote. Sen. Dick Durbin , who’s leading the hearings as chair of the committee, has said he hopes for a bipartisan vote, even though Democrats don’t need Republican Support to confirm Jackson. They can do so with their 50 votes and Vice President Kamala Harris breaking a tie.
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