The Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings
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🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Today on Post Reports, the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, and how Republicans are weighing the costs and benefits of opposing Jackson’s nomination.
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The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson have begun. If confirmed, Jackson would be the first African American woman to be seated on the Supreme Court bench.
While Jackson’s confirmation hearing is expected to be less contentious than those for other recent Supreme Court nominees, such as Amy Coney Barrett and Brett M. Kavanaugh, her path to the highest court still faces challenges. Senior political reporter Aaron Blake explains the political calculus Republicans are making in the Senate, held by a razor-thin Democratic majority, and how Jackson’s seat on the bench could affect future Supreme Court cases.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for convening this hearing and for considering my nomination as Associate Justice |
| 0:08.5 | of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 0:12.0 | I am humbled and honored to be here. |
| 0:16.3 | This week, the Supreme Court confirmation hearings began for Judge Katanjee Brown-Jackson. |
| 0:22.2 | As you might remember, in recent years, these hearings for other Supreme Court nominees have |
| 0:27.2 | been pretty contentious. |
| 0:32.2 | There was the hearing for Neil Courstitch, who seat many Democrats felt rightfully |
| 0:36.7 | belonged to Merrick Garland. |
| 0:39.0 | Unfortunately, due to unprecedented treatment, Judge Garland was denied a hearing, and this |
| 0:45.2 | vacancy has been in place for well over a year. |
| 0:49.4 | There was the hearing for Brett Kavanaugh and questions around assault allegations against |
| 0:53.8 | him. |
| 0:55.0 | This onslaught of last-minute allegations does not ring true. |
| 0:59.3 | I'm not questioning that Dr. Ford may have been sexually assaulted by some person in some |
| 1:06.8 | place at some time. |
| 1:10.4 | But I have never done this to her or to anyone. |
| 1:16.2 | Even the nomination for Amy Coney Barrett came in the last weeks before the 2020 presidential |
| 1:21.2 | election, and that was pretty intense. |
| 1:24.2 | Judge's can't just wake up one day and say, I have an agenda, I like guns, I hate guns, |
| 1:28.7 | I like abortion, I hate abortion, and walk in like a royal queen and impose their will |
| 1:34.4 | on the world. |
| 1:35.8 | So I asked Aaron Blake, senior political reporter for the post, with what we've seen |
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