WASHINGTON — As Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson enters a historic and high-profile week of confirmation hearings, Black law students from across the country are showing up in droves to show Jackson they 'have her back.'
WASHINGTON — As Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson enters a historic and high-profile week of confirmation hearings, Black law students from across the country are showing up in droves to show Jackson they"have her back."
"It's beautiful. It's breathtaking, but it's also very inspiring just to see another, one, female, but also a Black female who looks like myself being in such a position of honor," said McDonald, who is expected to graduate from Southern University Law Center in May. The moment is also motivational for Zsa'queria Martin, a second-year law student at Florida A&M University who looks to Jackson's previous work as a public defender for inspiration.
"A Black woman is finally on the precipice of basically a mountain that has never been claimed before," Edrius Stagg, a third-year law student at Southern University Law Center, told ABC News. While the students are in D.C. supporting Jackson, they'll also be able to meet and network with other Black law students, an opportunity they say won't go unappreciated.
"Normally, when I'm in masses with hundreds of people from all over the place, it's normally us protesting against police brutality, or you know, something that the center of it is pain and suffering," Martin said."So the fact that I know that I'm meeting with people not to protest but to cheer on this Black woman, it means so much to me, like this is a happy moment.
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