“When you can see someone who looks like you in a role, with hair like yours, an African name like yours, skin like yours, it expands the idea of who you believe you can be.'
President Biden’s historic nomination of Jackson, who would be the first Black woman to serve on the court, has attracted supporters from all over the country. Members of Black sororities waved signs, and greeted each other with hopeful embraces. Beaming law students from historically Black colleges and universities, like Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., held up large “KBJ” letters.
Black women have been huddled around television screens and in front of devices as organizations like theprovided streaming for the hearings on its website to create an online community to watch the hearings and give analysis in real time. “And like Judge Motley, I have dedicated my career to ensuring that the words engraved on the front of the Supreme Court building — ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ — are a reality and not just an ideal,” Jackson said. “Thank you for this historic chance to join the highest Court, to work with brilliant colleagues, to inspire future generations, and to ensure liberty and justice for all.”
Despite the excitement over the historic nomination, the climate around Supreme Court hearings in recent years has become especially contentious, especially after Republicans refused to grant nominee Merrick Garland a hearing or vote in 2016 and the polarizing appointment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The Congressional Black Caucus, which has 28 female members, has created a “war room” that will serve as “wind beneath her wings” during the historic proceedings, as the“We will be on every national platform, whether invited or not,” CBC chairwoman Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, said. “We will impose ourselves there because the nation will be watching.
“What I regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme Court, we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences,” Jackson told Hawley after hours of questioning.who is Black, relayed a message from a Black woman who stopped him during his morning jog to explain what it meant to see Jackson as a nominee. In a teary exchange, he described seeing his mother’s past reflected in Jackson.
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