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"THROUGH THE CIRCUS"

4/10/22

Ketanji Brown Jackson was finally confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice after another farsical confirmation hearing in the Senate, in which the GOP threw anything they thought would stick to the wall in an attempt to stop a history-making nomination of the first African-American woman to the court. Only 3 Republicans (the usual crossovers-Romney, Murkowski and Collins) voted to confirm. In recent decades it has become clear that the system has become so partisan that judges are simply not getting a fair congressional review.