Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has emphasized her family and faith as part of her introduction to lawmakers during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
These are the members of Ketanji Brown Jackson's familyKetanji Brown Jackson's daughter wrote a letter to Obama about nominating her mom to Supreme CourtKetanji Brown Jackson's daughter wrote a letter to Obama about nominating her mom to Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has emphasized her family and faith as part of her introduction to lawmakers during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings." Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's family from left, brother Ketajh Brown, and parents Johnny and Ellery Brown, sit together in a front row during Jackson's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, March 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. There is a 10 year age gap between Jackson and her younger brother Ketajh, who was at Monday's hearing seated next to their parents.After graduating from Howard University, Ketajh worked as an undercover narcotics recovery officer in the Baltimore City police department.In the wake of the September 11th attacks, Ketajh joined the Maryland Army National Guard, became an infantry officer, and was deployed twice to the Middle East.Ketajh is currently an associate at the law firm K&L Gates' Chicago office.Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., leaves the House floor in the Capitol on December 20, 2018. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's husband, Patrick Jackson, and children, Leila Jackson and Talia Jackson, sit in the audience of Jackson's Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to the United States Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 21, 2022. This is who's who among Jackson's family:Patrick Jackson, husband of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, reaches out to hold her hand as she sits in the audience area with her family during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on March 21, 2022 in Washington. Jackson met her husband, Patrick, in college and the two have been married for 25 years. Johnny Brown and Ellery Brown listen during their daughter's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill March 21, 2022, in Washington, DC. Johnny and Ellery Brown, Jackson's parents, have been married for 54 years.Both Miami natives, they were raised in the Jim Crow South, attended segregated primary schools, before graduating from historically Black colleges and universities, according to her White House biography. When she was 11, Leila wrote a letter to former President Barack Obama about nominating her mom to the Supreme Court.Jackson addressed her daughters in her opening statement, saying: "Girls, I know it has not been easy as I have tried to navigate the challenges of juggling my career and motherhood.
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Dark money reform has been a priority for congressional Democrats since Citizens United, and Republicans’ own polling tells them “there’s a large, very large, chunk of conservatives who are supportive of these types of efforts.” No less a conservative than Justice Antonin Scalia wrote: “Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage, without which democracy is doomed.” But there has been no Republican support for any of the reform measures Democrats have offered, and Republicans have shown no interest in proposing solutions of their own. Last term, after the libertarian dark-money group Americans for Prosperity spent more than a million dollars on a “full scale campaign” to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett, it won a little-noticed but hugely consequential victory at the Supreme Court. Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Down the hall from the Federalist Society’s Washington office sits the Judicial Crisis Network, another group with close ties to Leo. JCN—actually just one of several “fictitious names” for a secretive 501(c)(4) “social welfare” group legally known as the Concord Fund—runs political attack ads during judicial confirmations. Fueled by dark money, the Federalist Society’s influence rose to new heights during the last administration, as President Donald Trump pledged that his judges would “all [be] picked” by the group. White House counsel Don McGahn acknowledged “insourcing” the Federalist Society for judicial nominations, and the group’s then–executive vice president, Leonard Leo, took leaves of absence to work for the White House on the Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh confirmations. Bush-era documents produced during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, for example, revealed that the Federalist Society ran a secret “judicial umbrella” group, which included not only other anonymously funded outside groups like the Heritage Foundation, but also lawyers inside the Bush White House responsible for the president’s judicial selections.
Questioning of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has begun. Watch Day 2 of the confirmation hearings here.
In what Durbin described as “a trial by ordeal,” Jackson answered questions right off the bat that attempted to deflect GOP concerns and also highlight the empathetic style that she has frequently described. Those are some of the toughest cases a judge has to deal with, she said. Jackson started the hearing by responding to Republicans who have questioned whether she is too liberal in her judicial philosophy.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared Tuesday for what may be the most important day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, taking questions from ...
And I’m just not willing to speak to issues that are properly in the province of this body.” “Respectfully, senator, other nominees to the Supreme Court have responded as I will, which is that it is a policy question for Congress,” Jackson said. “Judges should not be speaking into political issues.” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., focused all of his entire questioning on child pornography cases and sought to depict Jackson as too lenient against defendants. "Public service is very important to me. “It is heinous. “How would you feel if a senator up here said your faith — the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern?” Graham asked. He pressed her about the meaning of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s words. Cruz repeatedly pressed Jackson about The New York Times' "1619 Project" and critical race theory and her views on it. “Let’s make history this week, but let’s not rewrite it,” he said. It’s never something that I’ve studied or relied on," she replied. “I am not importing my personal views or policy preferences.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is similar to and different from the justices she would be joining — not only because of her race and gender.
But President Biden’s decision to nominate her and her excellent chance of confirmation suggest that the bipartisan movement to reform the criminal justice system has shifted the debate. For years, presidents avoided nominating former public defenders, partly out of a fear that they would be tarred with the sins of their old clients, as my colleague Carl Hulse points out. She is a Democratic appointee nominated to replace a Democratic appointee (Breyer, for whom she clerked) on a court dominated by Republican appointees.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, faces confirmation hearings Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Eternal vigilance, it's been said, is the price of liberty." "If Senator Whitehouse is pleased that you once clerked for a Rhode Island judge, we, in Minnesota, are equally happy that you are wearing bold purple today, winning over both Prince and Minnesota Vikings fans the world over," she joked. "You, judge, are opening a door that's long been shut to so many and by virtue of your strong presence, your skills, your experience, you are showing so many little girls and little boys across the country that anything and everything is possible," she said.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court, is answering questions from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
That report is typically available only to the judge and the parties in the case, but judges frequently read the probation recommendation into the public record when imposing their sentences. Those recommendations, in fact, are not “guidelines” to be applied across a broad class of cases but are tailored to individual cases. He said it would be “misinformation” for Jackson and Democrats to cite “probation guidelines” in responding to his questions.