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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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings wrapped up on Thursday, and all indications point to Jackson being confirmed, largely along partisan lines. She would be the first Black woman and first public defender to serve on the court. Since her confirmation is expected, the hearings — similar to past ones — were more … Read more
Because Ketanji Brown Jackson is expected to be confirmed by the Senate, this week’s hearings were more about politics. In this installation of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux discuss the messages that senators sent and whether we were able to glean anything about what kind of justice Jackson would be.
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
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 22, 2022. (Win McNamee/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 signing up. For more from … Read more
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On Feb. 25, shortly after President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee became public, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham tweeted that he expects a “respectful but interesting” hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. If history is any guide, Graham’s right about it being interesting — but likely wrong about it being respectful. Biden’s nominee is Ketanji Brown Jackson, … 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