U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday is facing 30-minute rounds of questioning by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. FOX13
, the U.S. Supreme Court nominee who would be become the first Black woman on the high court if confirmed, faced questioning from senators on Tuesday and defended her record as a federal judge.
She described looking into the eyes of defendants and explaining the lifelong effects on victims. It is "is important to me to represent that the children’s voices are represented," she said.Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for day 2 of her confirmation hearing. During questioning from committee chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, Brown Jackson addressed claims from Missouri Sen.
In response to GOP concerns about her being soft on crime — an emerging theme in Republican midterm election campaigns against Democrats in general — Jackson told the panel that her brother and two uncles served as police officers and "crime and the effect on the community, and the need for law enforcement, those are not abstract concepts or political slogans to me."
Jackson also professed love for "our country and the Constitution" in her 12-minute opening statement. She stressed that she has been independent, deciding cases "from a neutral posture" in her nine years as a federal judge, and took the time to thank her daughters. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., spoke emotionally about the "joy" he felt about her historic nomination and acknowledged her family's pride. Booker, who is Black, said the white men who have sat on the Supreme Court for two centuries were "extraordinary patriots who helped shape this country" but that many people could have never dreamed of sitting on the court.
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