The Marathon of the Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn-in during the first day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building, and would then spend two days answering senators’ questions about her Supreme Court nomination — some easy ones from Democrats about her qualifications, and some tough ones from Republicans about, well...lots of things.

For some Republicans, this was about far more than the Supreme Court. It was about Critical race theory, children’s books, the definition of the word “woman;” – issues that seemed to fall far outside the realm of the Supreme Court.