Ketanji Brown Jackson's Confirmation Hearings

Heritage Explains

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🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Tom Jipping, a senior legal fellow in Heritage’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, discusses key takeaways from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination hearing.

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0:00.0	From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.
0:17.8	President Joe Biden has nominated U.S. Circuit Court Judge Katanji Brown Jackson to replace
0:23.6	retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Jackson was a favorite among left-wing special
0:29.5	interest groups, as well as an early frontrunner for the seat. At 51, she's just a year older
0:35.9	than Justice Antonin Scalia was at the time of his 1986 appointment.
0:40.5	He served for nearly 30 years.
0:43.7	Jackson's confirmation hearings began last week.
0:47.0	He did debate today in the Senate confirmation hearing for Katanji Brown Jackson.
0:51.6	She could make history as the first black woman to sit on the Supreme Court,
0:54.6	but first she's taking questions from senators
0:56.9	in a process that is becoming increasingly contentious.
1:00.0	Can you provide a definition for the word woman?
1:04.9	Can I provide a definition?
1:06.6	No.
1:07.2	Yeah.
1:08.4	I can't.
1:10.0	You can't? Not in this context. I'm not a biology.
1:11.6	You can't?
1:12.6	Okay.
1:13.6	I'm not a biology.
1:15.6	You can be doing this for 15 minutes and all of a sudden you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years
1:25.6	in prison.
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