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U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill March 22, 2022 in Washington, DC.

Ketanji Brown Jackson calls Roe 'settled law' on 'terminating pregnancy'

Mar 22, 2022

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson called Roe v. Wade — the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide... Read more

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies on her nomination to become an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2022.

Here's how Ketanji Brown Jackson defended her record for sentencing child porn offenders

Mar 22, 2022

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson began the second day of her confirmation hearings by responding to claims that she... Read more

Hon. Beth Robinson, associate justice on the Vermont Supreme Court, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 14, 2021

Federal judicial nominee grilled over 1990s religious freedom case

Sep 16, 2021

By Christine Rousselle

Multiple senators accused a judicial nominee of being hostile to religious freedom during her confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 14. Read more

A sign at the entrance to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room in Washington, D.C.

Judicial nominee quizzed over undergrad abortion op-ed

Sep 25, 2019

A federal judicial nominee during his confirmation process was questioned by a U.S. senator over an op-ed on abortion that he... Read more