{"id":514,"date":"2022-06-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/lihba\/ketanji-brown-jackson-to-serve-on-the-u-s-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T18:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:10:02","slug":"ketanji-brown-jackson-to-serve-on-the-u-s-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/ketanji-brown-jackson-to-serve-on-the-u-s-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme\u00a0Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On April 7, 2022, a bipartisan group of Senators confirmed Judge Jackson&#8217;s nomination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is an exceptionally well-qualified jurist whose credentials, experience, and evenhanded approach to the administration of justice made her an outstanding candidate for the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last year, Judge Jackson was confirmed by this Senate on a bipartisan basis to serve on the D.C. Circuit.\u00a0\u00a0Before her confirmation to the D.C. Circuit, Judge Jackson served on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.\u00a0 She was confirmed to this role unanimously and issued more than 500 opinions on cases involving a range of important issues\u2014from the separation of powers to the reach of the Fourth Amendment to collective bargaining rights.\u00a0\u00a0She additionally has prior experience as a Vice Chair and Commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, as a federal public defender, as a lawyer in private practice, and as a law clerk at all three levels of the federal Judiciary, including for Justice Breyer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The historic nomination of Judge Jackson is an important step toward making the Supreme Court look more like the nation as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme\u00a0Court. On April 7, 2022, a bipartisan group of Senators confirmed Judge Jackson&#8217;s nomination. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is an exceptionally well-qualified jurist whose credentials, experience, and evenhanded approach to the administration of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihba.kiruyi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}