U.S. Supreme Court,
Judges and Judiciary
Mar. 28, 2022
Race and politics in the Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings
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?
Kevin R. Johnson
Kevin is Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Professor of Chicana/o Studies
UC Davis School of Law
Phone: (530) 752-8047
Harvard Univ Law School
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 whe...
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