Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing tells us how and why American politics is broken | Opinion
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson listens to a question during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, March 22, 2022, in Washington. In a better world, the 12-minute introductory speech that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee would be a moment worthy of celebration.
The Supreme Court nominee went on to detail the love and devotion that her mother and father — born into a legally segregated society — showed her and her brother, and their own faith that America could match its ideals with its actions. She simply but plainly described a temperate judicial philosophy based in neutrality and constraint, tied to the facts of the cases before her and text of the law.
The blame is not simply to the Republicans who will vote against Jackson, anymore than it is against Democrats who have fought, often bitterly and at times unfairly, against Republican nominees.
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