History will be made on Monday when confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, begin on Capitol Hill.
Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to serve on the nation’s highest court, will sit before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday — all 22 members of the panel will deliver opening statements before Jackson herself will get to speak.
Jackson will be introduced Monday by Lisa Fairfax, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School, and Judge Thomas Griffith, a former federal appeals judge for the D.C. Circuit appointed by former President George W. Bush.
Tuesday and Wednesday’s sessions will consist of lawmakers questioning Jackson. On Thursday, outside witnesses and the American Bar Association — which on Friday said Jackson was “well qualified,” its highest rating — will deliver testimony.
Jackson is no stranger to this process — she appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year after President Biden nominated her to replace Judge Merrick Garland as a United States circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
She received a 13-9 vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee before the Senate confirmed her in…