Marshall, 1st Black justice, faced down Senate critics
WASHINGTON (AP) The first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court is likely to face questioning at her Senate hearing that would have been familiar to Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man who served on the high court.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jacksons nomination has come before the Senate during what Senate Republican Minority Leader Moscow Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has called a national crime wave.
"Amid all this, the soft-on-crime brigade is squarely in Judge Jacksons corner, McConnell said on the Senate floor.
Other Republican senators and some in the conservative media have focused on Jackson's work as a federal public defender, which included representation of several men held without charges at Guantanamo Bay naval base. Jackson's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee begins Monday.
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