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Today will be the first of many hearings for the President Joe Biden's nominee for the Supreme Court.
This will be a live televised event and it is expected to be interesting for Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The federal judge will face a grilling from many of the far-right Republicans who seek to torpedo her nomination.
The introduction of Ms. Jackson will give a look into her background. She is a graduate of Harvard University and served three clerkships including one with retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
She is currently the federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
She was previously a district judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and vice chair for the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Biden picked her in late February and hopes that Democrats and Republicans give her a fair hearing and a confirmation vote.
The problems I'm expected to cover from this hearing is bullshit coming out of the mouths of Sen. Karen Hawley (R-MO), Sen. Karen Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Karen Paul (R-KY), Sen. Karen Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Karen N. Kennedy (R-LA), Sen. Karen Tuberville (R-AL), Sen. Karen Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Sen. Karen Blackburn (R-TN), Sen. Karen Lee (R-UT), Sen. Karen Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Karen Sinema (D-AZ). These unabashed white nationalists will no doubt try to question Jackson's history on the bench as well as her personal life.
The far-right and NRA will automatically pivot to culture war issues like gun rights, abortion, the border wall, crime, her beliefs on Washed Up 45 and Biden. The whole smorgasbord of nonsense you've come to expect from these idiots and the lawmakers who embrace this.
All she needs is 50 senators and Vice President Kamala Harris to back that vote. It's going to be a tall order seeing how Manchin and Sinema are playing footsie with the GOP.
If confirmed, she will be the first African American woman on the Supreme Court.
Watch the hearing live here.
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