Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee directly questioned Supreme Court justice nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for hours on Tuesday — the second day of a four-day confirmation hearing. More from Judge Jackson -
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee directly questioned Supreme Court justice nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for hours on Tuesday — the second day of a four-day confirmation hearing.
"In my view, judges should not be speaking into political issues," Jackson said in response to a question by Committee Chairman Dick Durbin. Because the number of Supreme Court justices is not spelled out in the Constitution, some Democrats in recent years have floated adding more justices to the court as a way of evening out the balance of power on the court.
While Jackson's answer was in line with Barrett's and Kavanaugh's, abortion law in the U.S. may look radically different in a matter of weeks. The Supreme Court has already signaled that it will allow states to drastically roll back a woman's access to abortion when it rules on a landmark case out of Mississippi later this year.A handful of conservative lawmakers have accused Jackson of handing down lighter sentences in child pornography cases she presided over.
She also addressed the historic nature of her confirmation. She's the first Black woman ever to be nominated to serve on the Supreme Court.
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