"An [Arkansas] Senator attempting to associate a Black SCOTUS nominee with a rise in dangerous crime is also a page from the confirmation hearing for Thurgood Marshall 54 years ago," tweeted Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund president and director-counsel emeritus.
April 08, 2022 at 02:04 PM
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Litigation Reporter
In the moments immediately following a bipartisan U.S. Senate vote that confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 116th justice and first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, countless legal professionals took to social media to celebrate the historic moment.
Many minorities expressed pride and admiration, but also highlighted Jackson’s disparate confirmation hearing experience as indicative of discrimination still experienced by many jurists of color throughout the legal industry.
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Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, on Monday, March 21. (Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM)
