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‘At some point, you have to follow the rules’ chairman Dick Durbin warns his GOP colleague

Immigration provisions in a House bill to increase US global competitiveness, absent in Senate plan, may still make it into final version.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson will face senators’ questions for the first time as Democrats push to quickly confirm the only Black female justice in the court’s history

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson spent more than four hours Monday with her hands folded in front of her at the witness table, often smiling broadly as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spoke in turn about the coming days of the confirmation hearing.

Text of the opening remarks by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to the Supreme Court, on the first day of her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, as delivered March 21, 2022:

WASHINGTON — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s historic nominee to the Supreme Court, promised Monday that if confirmed to the Supreme Court, she would "defend the Constitution and the grand experiment of American democracy that has endured over these past 246 years."

Ketanji Brown Jackson made remarks in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee as the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON — When Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson sits before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday to kick off her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Democrats and civil rights advocates want her to know — and see — they’re behind her.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold its first day of confirmation hearings for United States Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on March 21, 2022. Hearings typically involve a statement from the nominee, interviews with witnesses testifying for or against the nomination, and questions from Senators regarding the nominee’s experience,…

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…

The Illinois senator, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the committee will start its "formal investigation" on Friday with a confirmation hearing to be held "within the next several weeks."