By Victor Omondi Supreme Court candidate Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke for numerous Black women who have had to summon all of their patience, strength, and grace to respond to insinuating questions about their credentials, qualifications, and character in that one moment. The Harvard-educated Jackson, the first Black woman to be nominated for the nation’s highest […]
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court and after a grueling three days of questioning - and in some cases badgering - by Republicans, she has finally cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee and appears to be headed towards confirmation as a justice with support from a united Democratic Party and she even managed to pull a small group of Republicans in along the way.
The insinuations that Jackson, a distinguished jurist and mother of two, is a secret radical liberal or poses a danger to the safety of children felt to some supporters as yet another example of highly qualified Black women having to endure indignities and distortions of their credentials.
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson had to endure hours of public scrutiny from skeptics during her Senate hearings this past week, and that's something.
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson had to endure hours of public scrutiny from skeptics during her Senate hearings this past week, and that's something.