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What happens next for Supreme Court nominee Jackson after contentious hearings?

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson remains on a straight path to the nation’s high court, but her nomination could face a few hurdles as it approaches the finish line.

Miami Herald

‘The court-packers' pick’: McConnell a ‘no’ on Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday he would vote against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is set to become the first Black woman ever to sit on the nation’s highest bench.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings: What’s next in her historic confirmation process?

Jackson returns to private meetings after three marathon hearings

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Five key moments from Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearing – and what they say about her confirmation

From Josh Hawley’s questioning of her sentencing to Cory Booker’s stirring defence

The Independent UK

Senator Marsha Blackburn mocked after misquoting Constitution while attacking abortion rights

US Senator Marsha Blackburn spent her time during the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown railing against abortions, but she failed to show even a basic understanding of American history when she later tweeted about the issue.

The Independent UK

Ketanji Brown Jackson Defended People Suspected of Terrorism. Good.

There's a particular richness to Republican senators weaponizing the right to defense counsel as an affront to the Constitution as opposed to something that's pivotal to it.

Reason

Democrat grills Republican official who refuses to say Biden was ‘duly elected’

Alabama attorney general was vocal supporter of ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign to overturn Trump’s election loss

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Tom Cotton's Absurd Question About Contacting a Heroin Dealer's Victims Reveals a Drug Warrior's Demagoguery

The mindlessly punitive senator grilled Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson about her resentencing of a drug offender.

Reason

Parties close arguments over Supreme Court pick Jackson

WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee put Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on the path to confirmation to the Supreme Court after closing her nomination hearings Thursday with character witnesses and outside experts.

Tribune News Service

Alabama AG mum on whether Biden is 'duly elected' president

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has declined before Congress to express an opinion on whether President Joe Biden is serving in the office legally

The Independent UK

At the Races: KBJ OK TBD - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

Roll Call

Ted Cruz questioning of Ketanji Brown Jackson was ‘absurd’, his former Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz says

‘I hope he didn’t learn them from me, he was my student,’ Dershowitz says of Cruz

The Independent UK

Takeaways: Jackson hearing shows breadth of partisan divide

The historic Senate hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's the first Black woman nominated for the Supreme Court, have been joyful, combative and clarifying

The Independent UK

Republicans ready to roll back SCOTUS

During Ketanji Brown Jackson's hearing, the GOP winked at plans to overturn Supreme Court precedents on marriage

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The Independent UK

Donald Trump Jr mocked for trying to troll Ketanji Brown Jackson: ‘1+1=??? I have no idea what the answer is’

Ex-president’s son reacts as judge avoids holding forth on areas outside her expertise

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Jackson’s Supreme Court hearings focused a lot on child porn, thanks to Sen. Josh Hawley

WASHINGTON — By late afternoon on the third day of her U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing, it appeared Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had had enough.

Tribune News Service

Final day of hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in bid to join Supreme Court

The Senate Judiciary Committee will wrap up its fourth and final day of hearings on the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

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Parties close arguments over Supreme Court pick - Roll Call

The confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson concludes with testimony from character witnesses and outside experts.

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The Guardian - US

Jimmy Kimmel on Ted Cruz: ‘What a slug of a human being’

The late-night host took aim at the Republicans attacking supreme court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Independent UK

Donald Trump Jr shamed for tweet about paedophiles following Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing

Former president’s son has repeatedly weighed in during historic Supreme Court confirmation hearing

The Guardian - US

Mitch McConnell says he will not support Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination – as it happened

Senate Republican leader says he will not back Biden’s nominee as Biden meets Nato and G7 leaders in Europe

The Conversation

Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court hearing is a flashback to how race and crime featured during Thurgood Marshall's 1967 hearings

U.S. Sen. James Eastland posed a question to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Thurgood Marshall during his August 1967 confirmation hearings.

The Guardian - US

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing is a disgrace to her qualifications

The bad faith questions, the baseless accusations, the time wasting – Brown Jackson’s interrogators do not see her as an equal

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Make her Justice Jackson: The Senate should approve Ketanji Brown Jackson on a bipartisan basis

Give Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee credit for playing a clever double game. First, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, John Cornyn, Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn and others looked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in the eyes and said that, unlike the way nasty Democrats (including former Sen. Joe Biden) savagely vilified…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Jackson is solid on the law, so Republicans resort to religious litmus tests

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is clear about forbidding Congress from passing laws that mix the business of the state with matters of religion. Yet Republican lawmakers, many of whom are lawyers and constitutional scholars, seem intent on delving into matters of religion anyway from their Capitol Hill…

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