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For a cabal that's about to kill off the constitutional right to privacy, SCOTUS sure keeps itself buttoned up

The Supreme Court’s decision was made possible by an emboldened right side of the court

The phrase “in a historic vote” gets thrown around a lot in journalism – and it isn’t always warranted. But shortly after 2 p.m. EDT on April 7, 2022, a Senate roll call confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice – the first Black woman to…

As Kamala Harris made history in her speech accepting the vice presidential nomination in 2020, she broke into a broad grin as she invoked the name of her hero: Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are scheduled to vote April 4, 2022, on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It kicks off a potentially historic week in which a full Senate vote could set course for the nation’s highest court seating it’s first Black female judge.

The ship will be part of a fleet named after important civil rights figures including John Lewis and Thurgood Marshall

The Senate Judiciary Committee is pushing Ketanji Brown Jackson closer to confirmation, setting up a vote next week to recommend her nomination to the full Senate and seat her as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

The Senate Judiciary Committee is aiming to vote on Jackson’s nomination on April 4. If all the Democrats stick together, Jackson is expected to be confirmed four days later — even if all the Republicans vote against her.

America’s first Black justice was confirmed to the Supreme Court in 1967 but some question how much has changed, writes Andrew Buncombe