Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation vote is ‘making history’, says senator – as it happened
by Vivian Ho from US news | The Guardian on (#5XTMM)
The Senate judiciary committee meets today, beginning a week expected to conclude with the confirmation of the first black female supreme court justice
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Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, is an unsurprising no on Ketanji Brown Jackson. The conservative senator has been vocally against Jackson - he flounced out of her confirmation hearing after wrongly accusing her of having called George W Bush and the former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld war criminals".
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