Race and Politics in Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearings

Official Picture of Judge Jackson

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled President Biden’s nominee, Judge Katanji Brown Jackson, in lengthy confirmation  hearings. 

Yesterday, I published commentary on the “Race and Politics in Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Hearings” in the Daily Journal, a California legal newspaper.  Here is the intro:

“Ketanji Brown Jackson has the profile of a perfect nominee to be an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Harvard College. Harvard Law School. Editor of the Harvard Law Review. A law clerk to two federal judges and Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. Criminal and civil experience. With over  nine years as  a federal judge, Judge Jackson has more judicial experience than Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy  Coney Barrett had when confirmed. So why the cringeworthy treatment of Judge Jackson, who would be the first African­ American woman on the high court, by Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee? Sadly enough, race and partisan politics deeply influenced the treatment of Judge Jackson.”

Click the link above to read the rest of the commentary.

KJ