U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-Me.) (L) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) walk to a meeting at the Capitol on July 21, 2021. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The days of broad bipartisan support for confirming the nominees for the US Supreme Court appear to be behind us. But it’s still important that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson … Read more
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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson are now over. And they were incredibly ugly. In advance of the hearings, my colleague Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux wrote that Jackson’s identity as a Black woman as well as her professional background as a former public defender meant that … Read more
In Part II of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, senior writer Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux chats with Galen Druke about Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nomination to replace Justice Stephen Breyer, and how she could shake up the US Supreme Court.
Ketanji Brown Jackson during her hearing to become a US Circuit judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, April 28, 2021, in Washington, DC (Kevin Lamarque-Pool / Getty Images) Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for the nation‘s weekly newsletter. Thank you for … Read more
After several weeks of mild suspense, President Biden announced that he’s nominating Ketanji Brown Jackson, who currently sits on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. Now, the Senate is hurtling toward its fourth Supreme Court confirmation hearing in five years. Jackson, who is the first Black … Read more
NBC Sports Where are the next Olympic Games? Host cities for 2024 Summer Olympics, 2026 Winter Olympics and more The 2022 Winter Olympics take place on Friday, February 4 through Sunday, February 20, in Beijing, China, featuring 109 events–seven more since PyeongChang–across 15 sports. Events will be contested across three Olympic competition zones: Beijing, Yanqing, … Read more
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Hue Jackson is somewhat backtracking on his claim that the Browns offered him money to lose games. Earlier Wednesday, in response to a tweet about Brian Flores’ claims that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross offered him $100,000 per loss, Jackson tweeted that Browns owner Jimmy Haslam “was happy while we kept losing. When a fan tweeted“Jimmy … Read more