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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 Guardian - US

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 Conversation

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…

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Ted Cruz photographed checking his Twitter mentions after ‘performative tantrum’ at Supreme Court hearing

‘He was searching Twitter for his name, this was right after his exchange with Chairman Durbin’

The Independent UK

Republicans turn Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing into a political circus

Solemn proceedings of confirmation hearing took a nosedive into farce with bizarre moments in Jackson’s epic inquisition

The Guardian - US

High court nominee says she'd skip Harvard race case

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says that if confirmed to the Supreme Court she’d sit out an affirmative action lawsuit over Harvard’s admission policies because she sits on the board of her college alma mater

The Independent UK

Supreme Court hearing gets heated, as the end is in sight

WASHINGTON — Ketanji Brown Jackson navigated cleanly through a second day of questioning at her confirmation hearing, despite several Republicans who ratcheted up their confrontations with the Supreme Court nominee.

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Republicans ignore Ketanji Brown Jackson’s answers as they badger her about child sex abuse image sentences

‘At some point, you have to follow the rules’ chairman Dick Durbin warns his GOP colleague

The Independent UK

Nikole Hannah-Jones says it was ‘badge of honor’ that Cruz cited 1619 Project in Jackson hearing

DALLAS — New York Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, who has become the face of the much-talked about the 1619 Project, happened to be in Sen. Ted Cruz’s home state Tuesday, the day he negatively cited her work during the Supreme Court confirmation hearing in D.C. for Judge Ketanji Brown…

Tribune News Service

Are Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz Ignorant About Child Porn Penalties or Just Demagogic?

Even if the senators are genuinely confused, that underlines the recklessness of their attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Reason

'Hard to watch': For Black women, Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing feels all too familiar

WASHINGTON — Georgetown government professor Nadia Brown tossed out the syllabus Tuesday for her Race, Gender and American Politics class and spent the afternoon watching clips from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Senate confirmation hearing.

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court hearing gets heated, as the end is in sight - Roll Call

The Supreme Court hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson got heated on Wednesday, but the overall political dynamics did not.

Roll Call

Ketanji Brown Jackson faces renewed Republican attacks in Senate grilling

Hearings on Biden’s supreme court nominee resume with chair chiding Republicans for ‘showcasing election talking points’

The Guardian - US

Author thanks Ted Cruz as book he blasted at Supreme Court hearing rockets up on bestseller list

Every purchase of ‘The End of Policing’ now comes with ‘vial of Ted Cruz tears’ tweets author

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Salon

GOP's racist babies throw SCOTUS tantrum

From attacks on interracial marriage to "white privilege" whining, Republicans triggered by Ketanji Jackson Brown

The Independent UK

AOC exposes ‘perfect’ edges on book Cruz brandished at Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing ‘proving he hasn’t read it’

Senator held up a copy

The Independent UK

Takeaways: Supreme Court hearings test senators on race

It’s not just Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson who is being watched as she makes history as the first Black woman to be considered for the job

The Guardian - US

Madeleine Albright, first female US secretary of state, dies at 84 – as it happened

Albright served as the senior US diplomat in the administration of Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001 – follow the latest

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Salon

Behind the right's racist KBJ assault

Author and scholar Elie Mystal on our deeply flawed Constitution and the long, dark history of legal racism

The Independent UK

Defending her record, Jackson back for 3rd day of hearings

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is returning to the Senate for a third day of hearings

Los Angeles Times

Judge Jackson's sentencing record looms large in Supreme Court confirmation hearing

WASHINGTON — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s historic Supreme Court nominee, weathered a long day before a Senate committee on Tuesday, fending off charges by Republicans that she was too lenient in her sentencing of defendants.

France 24

Biden Supreme Court pick Jackson fends off Republican barbs on second day of hearings

US Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson defended her record of sentencing in child pornography cases and advocacy for terror suspects as she was grilled Tuesday in her bid to be the first Black woman on the country’s highest judicial bench.

Chicago Sun-Times

6 takeaways from Day 2 of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing

Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., turned into a one-man rapid response squad, using the power of his gavel to debunk, in real time, GOP misleading or scurrilous claims.

Salon

Cruz works around campaign finance rules

The Texas senator breaks new ground in pushing campaign finance boundaries

Tribune News Service

Hearing for court nominee Jackson veers into hot-button topics

WASHINGTON — Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday rolled unscathed through a marathon day of questioning for her nomination to the Supreme Court, as some of the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spent time on outside issues peripheral to her qualifications.

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