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Billy Binion

Ketanji Brown Jackson Explains to Lawmakers How Being a Lawyer Works

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday continued its questioning of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. And, as these things tend to go, the hearing focused primarily on the sort of political theater more likely to generate clips for cable news than to extract productive tidbits about Jackson's approach to the bench.

But a series of exchanges took that to new heights as the nominee spent a considerable amount of time outlining for the committee how being an attorney works and how basic trial practices play out in reality.

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