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In coming battle over Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Republicans seek other targets

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell openly acknowledges Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court.

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Commentary: Nominate the ‘most qualified’ woman? Reagan certainly didn’t

During his 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan promised that “one of the first Supreme Court vacancies in my administration will be filled by the most qualified woman I can possibly find.” In 1981, after he entered the White House, he said he “identified such a person” in Sandra Day O’Connor.

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All smiles, Jackson tries for Senate reset on Supreme Court

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson may not get any Republican votes

The Independent UK

Should Ketanji Brown Jackson Recuse in Harvard Admissions Case?

Does her position on Harvard University's Board of Overseers require or counsel her recusal once she is confirmed?

Reason

Former Sen. Dan Coats dishes on Supreme Court, Ukraine, Trump

WASHINGTON — Dan Coats took on many different roles in his four decades in national and international politics, and all of them seem to be colliding at once as Russia invades Ukraine, as Europe and former President Donald Trump respond, and the Senate starts a historic Supreme Court confirmation process.

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US conducting ‘legal review’ of possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine – as it happened

White House clarifies there is a ‘legal review process’ after Harris says ‘absolutely there should be an investigation’

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Former Sen. Dan Coats dishes on Supreme Court, Ukraine, Donald Trump - Roll Call

Former Sen. Dan Coats has had a front seat to some intersecting issues: Supreme Court nominations and Russian aggression.

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Carl P. Leubsdorf: Biden's push to change makeup of federal courts

If Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, as seems likely, the high court will come closer to reflecting the country’s racial and gender balance than at any time in the nation’s history.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Honoring the likely first Black female Supreme Court justice means respecting her full name

I am not going to discuss Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s professional history, her husband or President Joe Biden’s choice to nominate her for the Supreme Court.

Chicago Tribune

Sen. Collins, key vote on court, gives Jackson warm review

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is winning praise from a key Senate Republican

The Independent UK

Nicholas Goldberg: Another thing that makes Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination special

Over the years, many former prosecutors have become justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Earl Warren, for instance, served as Alameda County's district attorney and California's attorney general. Sonia Sotomayor worked at the Manhattan district attorney's office. Samuel A. Alito Jr. worked for the U.S. attorney in New Jersey.

Los Angeles Times

Senate Judiciary leaders spar over Supreme Court confirmation hearing timeline

WASHINGTON — The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled Monday that his party will complain about the “unnecessary artificial timeline” that Democrats scheduled for the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, which Democrats answered by pointing to the GOP’s more speedy process for now-Justice Amy…

Tribune News Service

Top law enforcement officials support Jackson for high court

Dozens of the nation’s top law enforcement officials have signed a letter urging the U.S. Senate to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court

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Senate Judiciary leaders spar over Supreme Court confirmation hearing timeline - Roll Call

Sen. Charles Grassley signaled Republicans will complain about the “unnecessary artificial timeline” for hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The Guardian - US

Democrats and Republicans agree on plan to suspend trade relations with Russia and Belarus – as it happened

Lawmakers draft legislation aiming to ‘stop Russia’s unconscionable and unjust war on Ukraine and hold Belarus accountable for its involvement’

The Guardian - US

This time McConnell holds few cards to stop Biden’s supreme court pick

Ketanji Brown Jackson can expect little support from across the aisle but Republicans are wary of overreach before midterms

Tribune News Service

Tony Norman: The phrenologist and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

If this were the 19th century, Fox News' reigning talking head Tucker Carlson would be an old-school phrenologist. For those who don't keep track of racist pseudoscience or other tropes of social Darwinism, phrenology was the discipline of measuring the contour of human heads to predict mental capacity and predisposition…

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Photos of the week ending March 4, 2022 - Roll Call

Photos of the week: This week at the Capitol was all about the guests — first President Joe BIden, and then Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The Guardian - US

Tucker Carlson suddenly has questions about Ketanji Brown Jackson’s credentials – I have questions about his

Joe Biden has nominated the first Black female justice on the supreme court, Carlson is questioning her LSAT scores

Tribune News Service

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar expects bipartisan backing for Ketanji Brown Jackson in Supreme Court confirmation

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar met with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday, as the U.S. Supreme Court nominee made the rounds on Capitol Hill in advance of confirmation hearings later this month.

Salon

Tucker asks for Biden nom's LSAT scores

"Wonder how she did on the LSATs?" asks Fox News primetime star. "Why won’t [Biden] tell us that?

The Independent UK

‘Patently racist’: Tucker Carlson under fire for questioning Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT scores

The Fox News host’s call for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score is ‘patently racist,’ says one Harvard Law School graduate

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Justice as truth-telling: Celebrating the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court is historic. At the juncture of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, the announcement encapsulates the intersectional identity Jackson embodies. Of the 115 Supreme Court justices we have had, only five have been women and only…

The Independent UK

Democrats see 'no reason to wait' on Supreme Court vote

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has begun courting senators on Capitol Hill, making her case for confirmation in private meetings as Democrats worked to move her nomination through the Senate within weeks

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