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Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court

The last time the party out of power derailed a Supreme Court nomination was 1987, but both parties keep trying to repeat that feat, Andrew Feinberg writes

Two more moderate Republican senators announced their support after the Judiciary Committee ended its vote in a deadlock

Despite GOP opposition, Jackson is set to be confirmed as the first Black woman in history to sit on Supreme Court

The Supreme Court nominee's critics say she clearly did, but several federal appeals courts disagree.

A divided Senate Judiciary Committee was set Monday to vote on the historic Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as Democrats seek to seal her confirmation by the end of the week.

As Kamala Harris made history in her speech accepting the vice presidential nomination in 2020, she broke into a broad grin as she invoked the name of her hero: Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are scheduled to vote April 4, 2022, on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It kicks off a potentially historic week in which a full Senate vote could set course for the nation’s highest court seating it’s first Black female judge.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-11 Monday on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court.