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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, begins two days of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

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Senate Republicans repeatedly name-checked “Demand Justice," signaling that part of Tuesday’s & Wednesday’s strategy will be to press Jackson into explaining why a progressive advocacy group that supports Supreme Court expansion also backs her nomination.

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Jackson swats back GOP claims she’s been soft on child pornographers.

“Nothing could be further from the truth,” she said, adding that she made sure “the children’s voices” are heard in these sentencing hearings.

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson repeatedly declined to give a response on the issue of court-packing, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that the matter is a policy one that should be left to Congress.

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So what are Jackson’s chances of confirmation?

They are pretty good, considering the situation. Because Vice President Kamala Harris can break a tie.

It’s also possible that a couple of Republican senators might vote for Jackson.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) aired his grievances over Dems’ handling of past conservative Supreme Court nominees Tuesday, asking Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson a series of pointed questions about faith that Democrats had asked previous Republican nominees.

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Graham asked Jackson about her faith, how committed she is to it and how often she attends church. Jackson stressed the importance of separating her faith from how she’d rule as a justice.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) highlighted issues important to women in much of her questioning of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, focusing on abortion policy, safety and gender parity.

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“We want, I think, as a country, for everyone to believe that they can do things like sit on the Supreme Court,” Jackson said, “and so having meaningful numbers of women and people of color, I think, matters.”

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Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) raised eyebrows by suggesting Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had called former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a “war criminal.”
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) accused Judge Jackson of having a “record of activism concerning sexual predators,” from her time at the Harvard Law School to her time as a trial judge.

Jackson said Cruz’s account was misleading.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tried to link Judge Jackson to critical race theory by quoting several children's books for that talked about race and its importance.
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Cruz said the mission of Georgetown Day School — where Jackson and her husband are on the board — and the books it uses are “filled with critical race theory.”

Judge Jackson said she understood CRT is taught in universities, not elementary schools.
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