“Long overdue,” says a high-profile Minnesota Democrat as a key committee is poised to send Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to the full U-S Senate. Jackson would be the first Black woman appointed to the high court, and Minnesota Senate Minority Leader Melisa Lopez Franzen says, “This vote comes 54 years to the day when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Judge Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court represents a piece of Dr. King’s legacy.”
Many Republican senators concede that Jackson is qualified to be a Supreme Court justice, but say they’ll vote “no” because of her judicial philosophy, her record in child-exploitation cases, and other issues.