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  • Biden’s judicial nominations have set records for diversity, but several remain unconfirmed

    Biden’s judicial nominations have set records for diversity, but several remain unconfirmed

    Dec 13, 2022 06:43 PM EDT

    ... judges, more than doubling the previous total number of Black women to serve on the country’s second-highest courts. Most notably, Biden appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Supreme Court. As this year’s legislative session comes to an end, 46 ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on website designer refusing services for same-sex couple

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on website designer refusing services for same-sex couple

    Dec 05, 2022 02:40 PM EDT

    ... for what a business might do without violating state anti-discrimination laws was a big question in Monday's arguments at the high court. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked whether a photography store in a shopping mall could refuse to take pictures of Black people on Santa's lap. “Their ...

  • Warnock and Walker's Georgia Senate race goes into overtime as runoff begins

    Warnock and Walker's Georgia Senate race goes into overtime as runoff begins

    Nov 11, 2022 07:59 PM EDT

    ... Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and links it to Democratic accomplishments, from the COVID-19 pandemic relief package to the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the nation's highest judicial body.Biden's approval ratings nationally hover in the low 40s ...

  • Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger blocked by federal judge

    Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger blocked by federal judge

    Nov 01, 2022 05:04 PM EDT

    ... behalf of our many magnificent authors.” Pan, meanwhile, has since been appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, replacing Ketanji Brown Jackson after she was nominated by Biden and approved by the Senate for the Supreme Court. Associated Press writer Marcy Gordon in Washington ...

  • Supreme Court hears arguments in cases that could end affirmative action

    Supreme Court hears arguments in cases that could end affirmative action

    Oct 31, 2022 10:55 PM EDT

    Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: You keep saying we object to the use of race standing alone. But as I read the record and understand their process, it's never standing alone, that it's in the context of all of the other factors. There are ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court conservatives raise doubts on affirmative action for college admissions

    LISTEN: Supreme Court conservatives raise doubts on affirmative action for college admissions

    Oct 31, 2022 12:21 AM EDT

    ... Sonia Sotomayor, the court's first Hispanic justice, rejected that comparison saying what universities are doing is looking at students as a whole. Likewise, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court's newest justice and its first Black woman, also said that race was being used at the University of North ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments over copyright of an Andy Warhol image of musician Prince

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments over copyright of an Andy Warhol image of musician Prince

    Oct 12, 2022 02:08 PM EDT

    ... whether something is “fair use” and to send the case back to lower courts for further review. “Why wouldn't we send it back,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked at one point. A range of high-profile organizations stressed the importance of the decision, including The Motion Picture Association, prominent ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on animal welfare in pork industry and death penalty case

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on animal welfare in pork industry and death penalty case

    Oct 11, 2022 01:48 PM EDT

    ... in the Midwest and North Carolina. The vast majority of sows, meanwhile, aren't raised under conditions that would meet Proposition 12's standards. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson summed up the issue by saying: "To what extent does California get to control what Iowa does with respect to the housing ...

  • Supreme Court hears redistricting cases with major implications for future elections

    Supreme Court hears redistricting cases with major implications for future elections

    Oct 04, 2022 10:45 PM EDT

    Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: You have enough people who are in marginalized groups that another district is possible. People are being segregated, in effect, in effect, as Justice Kagan, pointed out, right? We're not talking about intent. We're talking about the effect. Samuel ...

  • Justices mull latest challenge to landmark voting rights law

    Justices mull latest challenge to landmark voting rights law

    Oct 04, 2022 07:04 PM EDT

    Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court's first Hispanic justice, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court's first Black female justice who was hearing her second day of arguments, were similarly unsympathetic to Alabama's arguments. Jackson said “what we all want” is for people to “spread out and live ...

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