WASHINGTON — On the fourth and final day of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, the judge was not there. Outside witnesses testified for and against Jackson while the judge was off meeting with seven Democratic senators, including Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.
Ann Claire Williams, who was the first Black woman to sit on Chicago-based federal district and appellate courts, was the lead-off witness for the Democrats, appearing in her role as the chair of the nonpartisan American Bar Association Standing Committee on the federal judiciary.
