In one of her first public appearances on behalf of her memoir, “Lovely One,” Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson avoided naming names or pointing fingers.
St. Johns County is looking for a new tourism marketing firm. Business owners say a pause could negatively affect themFILE - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is seen after her formal investiture ceremony at the Supreme Court, in Washington, Sept. 30, 2022. didn't make a lot of news, but she did make a little history: She can add her name to James Brown , Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson among others as someone who has sung at the Apollo Theater.
King had promised — and kept her promise — to focus on Jackson's personal story and not on the law. Jackson discussed her childhood in Miami, the origins of her name , her undergraduate years at Harvard University, her interracial marriage to Dr. Patrick Jackson — who was in the audience Tuesday night — and her rise through the court system, culminating in 2022 when she became the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
“I remember this kinship with this fantastic woman,” Jackson told King."I thought, 'Why stop at law? I could be a federal judge." She endured aggressive questions from Republican senators during her confirmation hearings and she currently serves on one of the most conservative and divisive courts in U.S. history, casting dissenting votes on such landmark rulings as the granting of partial legal immunity for former presidents. But Jackson avoided naming names — beyond noting that Sen.
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