Jackson, President Joe Biden’s first Supreme Court nominee, is one step closer to becoming the first Black woman to sit on the nation’s top court.
Jackson maintained a deliberate speaking pace and rarely raised her voice throughout both days of hearings. She did show increasing hints of exasperation as Republican members spent hours on the child-porn cases.
The panel's Democrats heaped praise on Jackson, defended her against the criticism and at times seethed about her treatment by Republicans. Jackson on multiple occasions sat silently while members sparred over the nature of the questions being asked, as well as Republicans' efforts to view sensitive private information about the disputed child-porn cases.Well Qualified
The fourth and final day of hearings in the Judiciary Committee gaveled out nearly one month after Biden announced Jackson as his nominee. Before the public hearings began, Jackson met with senators of both parties individually behind closed doors. Virtually all of them offered compliments following their meetings with the judge.Jackson garnered bipartisan approval when Biden nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit less than a year earlier. Sen.
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