KETANJI BROWN JACKSON

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer effectively became the leader of the U.S. Senate on the morning of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said the federal government shouldn't define marriage and that such questions were meant to distract from inflation and crime.

The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has unveiled its bobblehead of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The bobbleheads are expected to ship in September.

About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices.

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.

The Supreme Court on Friday took a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions. Jackson, who joined the court June 30 following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, had pledged during her confirmation hearing to sit out the case involving Harvard's admissions policy because she was a member of the school's board. The Harvard dispute had been joined to a similar lawsuit involving the University of North Carolina.

The Supreme Court won’t allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people in the U.S. illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.

Republicans have made it clear that they’re itching to shut down the process with a Democrat in the White House, so a GOP Senate takeover is likely to produce shortages of federal judges.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs to sit on the federal court typically seen as a proving ground for the nation’s highest bench.

A federal appeals court has narrowed the range of documents House Democrats are entitled to in their years-long investigation of Donald Trump’s finances.

A federal appeals court on Friday narrowed the range of documents House Democrats are entitled to in their years-long investigation of Donald Trump's finances. The decision from the federal appeals court in Washington almost certainly won't be the last word in the legal fight that began in 2019, when Trump was president and Democrats newly in charge of the House of Representatives subpoenaed a wealth of records from Trump's accounting firm, Mazars USA. It held that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform should be given records of financial ties between foreign countries and Trump or any of his businesses for 2017-18.

Until last week when he swore in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, his successor on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer had a rigorous, intellectually challenging job with the highest of stakes.

Until last week when he swore in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, his successor on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer had a rigorous, intellectually challenging job with the highest of stakes. As a retired justice, Breyer can maintain an office at the Supreme Court if he wants to and also gets a clerk to help him. One example: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the court's first female justice, in retirement founded a group that teaches students civics through computer games.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., administers the Constitutional Oath to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in the West Conference Room, Supreme Court Building. Dr. Patrick Jackson holds the Bible. © Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took her place in American history last week, which includes a South Florida story.

Abortion, guns, religion.

Can the liberal Justices hold the conservatives back—by appealing to shame or the Constitution—as the consequences of the majority’s recklessness become even more dangerous for American democracy?

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson shares some of the mail she has received since her confirmation to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the Biden administration on the environment, but gave it a small victory on immigration in two decisions announced Thursday. AP reporter Mark Sherman explains. (June 30)

On the day of her swearing-in at the Supreme Court, a friend of newly-minted Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounted how her passion for justice and the law began right here in South Florida.

She is the 116th justice to serve on the Supreme Court and its first Black woman.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the first Black female U.S. Supreme Court justice on Thursday.

Her accession means that four women will simultaneously serve on the Supreme Court for the first time in its history.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday, becoming the first Black woman to serve as a justice. (June 30)

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is set to be sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday.

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.

The Supreme Court faces historically low confidence ratings from the public and is being criticized for overturning abortion rights.

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who grew up in South Florida, is officially becoming a justice

Jackson is making history as the first Black woman to serve on the high court.

Jackson, 51, will be sworn as the court's 116th justice Thursday, just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's first Supreme Court pick, will be sworn in as the 116th justice tomorrow at noon ET. She will be the first Black woman to serve on the nation's high court.

Jackson, 51, was chosen for the court by President Biden after Breyer earlier this year announced his plans to retire.

Breyer's retirement sets the stage for Ketanji Brown Jackson to begin her service as the Supreme Court's 116th justice.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire a week after the court overturned Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion.

"It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the rule of law," Breyer told President Biden in a letter.

"Trump deserves a lion share of credit here. He fought like a tiger to put three constitutional conservative judges on the court," he told Fox News.

A disproportionately high share of abortion patients are women of color — a result of systemic inequities, advocates say.

Gage Skidmore/The Star News Network/Wikimedia CommonsTech investor and Arizona Republican Senate hopeful Blake Masters acknowledges that the United States has a gun violence problem. But he also has a theory about why there’s a problem—it’s “Black people, frankly.”Masters boiled the issue down in an April 11 interview on the Jeff Oravits Show podcast, telling the host that “we do have a gun violence problem in this country, and it’s gang violence.”“It’s people in Chicago, St. Louis shooting each

Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke with The Post about becoming the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

The four groups of voters that will prove critical to results in the 2022 midterm elections.

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Josh Hawley is introducing legislation that would strip the Walt Disney Company of special copyright protections granted to the corporation by Congress, while also limiting the length of new copyrights.

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent, @StacyBrownMediaAfter 25 years working as a White House correspondent, April Ryan has seen it all. Before he became president, Barack Obama invited Ryan as a guest of his for a Congressional Black Caucus dinner. “After what I’ve seen, no,” Ryan remarked when asked whether anything surprises her anymore. Last year, Ryan earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Social Justice Impact. So many of us stand on their shoulders,” Ryan said.

A host on the right-wing network has no actual evidence that the future justice has anything to do with the leak. But he's still directing ire her way.

The sitting Supreme Court justice is now contractually obligated to step down.

More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided.

On "The Takeout" podcast this week, the former Alabama senator talks with host Major Garrett about Democrats and the midterms, the Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Putin and war crimes.

Democrats have spent years pledging to address the gun violence that plagues communities across the U.S. But a surge of mass shootings over the weekend served as a reminder of how little has been accomplished.

The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a lawsuit filed by four New York City public school employees over a policy that they be vaccinated against COVID-19.

In an escalation of partisan warfare, a little-known dark-money group is trying to thwart the President’s entire slate.

Utah Sen. Mike Lee worked on early efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, helping push legally dubious schemes to keep then-President Donald Trump in power, before he shifted course and quickly backed away.

A recent CBS News poll found 39% of Americans approve of the president's handling of crime, while 61% disapprove.

Though they criticized Democrats for blocking Janice Rogers Brown, in recent years Republicans passed up on three chances to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson earned confirmation with a 53-47 vote, breaking the glass ceiling after America’s first Black woman Vice President, Kamala Harris, presided over the process to confirm her. This is going to let so much sunshine on so many young women, so many young Black women,” Biden offered. Ironically, Republicans changed the rules for Supreme Court nominees in 2017 to confirm Justice Neil Gorsuch, a pick of former President Donald Trump. While all 50 Democrats in the U.S. Senate voted in favor of Jackson, Sens. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Justice Thurgood Marshall, and my personal heroine, Judge Constance Baker Motley,” Jackson said.

President Joe Biden's sweeping domestic agenda is on hold and images of horror in Ukraine dominate the headlines.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court last week and will become its first Black female justice.

Shirley Troutman, a judge on New York's highest court, was working last week when her daughter texted messages that included a clapping hands emoji. The applause and the excitement was for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who last week was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court and will become its first Black female justice. “As a judge, as a Black woman, I am extremely proud and wish her the best,” said Troutman, who took her seat earlier this year and is the second Black woman to serve on her court.

Recent hearings suggest they still haven’t grappled with the reality of when went on in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In her new book, Elizabeth Alexander looks at how young people are expressing themselves in the wake of unavoidable violence.

Republican Kelly Tshibaka has filed to run as a candidate for the U.S. Senate race.

What to make of confirmation hearings marked by grandstanding and racial attacks; and how controversy around Clarence and Ginni Thomas is further eroding the Court’s reputation.

The campaign is aimed at Black Americans. "My hope is that all Americans feel pride in this moment and what it says about what is possible in our country," said Karen Finney of the Black Women's Leadership Collective, which is part of the coalition.

Florida Rep. Dotie Joseph said U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott should have voted to confirm Judge Kentaji Brown Jackson as U.S. Supreme Court justice.

After the historic confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, "Saturday Night Live" made the Supreme Court the headliner in the show's opening sketch.

Clyburn argued that a Black female judge being blocked by Senate Republicans would've increased enthusiasm for Clinton's candidacy among Black voters.

Ego Nwodim's Jackson is joined by others who broke barriers: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Thurgood Marshall, Harriet Tubman and Jackie Robinson.

The Black cast members reveled in the historic moment, kicking off an episode full of spark and joy.

A milestone Supreme Court confirmation that endured a flawed process.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's speech at the White House went to the heart of both the triumphs and struggles of Black Americans in her lifetime.

The final Senate confirmation vote of 53–47 sparked joy and relief that the ugly part was over, at least for Jackson. The rest of the country may not be so lucky.

A day after her historic confirmation vote in the Senate, Ketanji Brown Jackson joins President Biden in the Rose Garden for an event featuring several of her future colleagues on the Supreme Court.

She will become the 116th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court when she takes the bench after Justice Stephen Breyer retires in June.

"I told her that I felt such a deep sense of pride and joy and about what this moment means for our nation and for her future," Harris said.

Jackson is an alumni of Miami Palmetto who graduated in 1988 and students wanted to celebrate the historic event in honor of her.

Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court shows the progress of America.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will join a Supreme Court that is both more diverse than ever and more conservative than it’s been since the 1930s.

Lawmakers erupted in cheers after Vice President Kamala Harris announced the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

When Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer, a 51-year-old mother of two who grew up in Miami will make history as the first Supreme Court justice from Florida and the first Black woman.

Janese Fayson said Ketanji Brown Jackson is an inspiration. The Miami Palmetto Senior High School senior is months away from graduating from Jackson’s alma mater in Pinecrest.

Moments before the Senate began Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation vote to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, the chamber filled with the swell of history.

A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses has stalled in the Senate.

The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.

Three Republican senators are breaking from their party to support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic nomination to the Supreme Court.

Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden’s nominee a new burst of bipartisan support to become the first Black woman on the high court.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett says judges are not deciding cases to impose a “policy result,” but are making their best effort to determine what the law and the Constitution require.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won’t vote for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she'll vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving Democrats at least one Republican vote and all but assuring Jackson will become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Alopecia is an autoimmune disorder that affects millions of people around the world.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is pushing Ketanji Brown Jackson closer to confirmation, setting up a vote next week to recommend her nomination to the full Senate and seat her as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

President Joe Biden stirred some of the first public cracks in transatlantic unity over the invasion of Ukraine with his comments in Warsaw that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” tarnishing an otherwise successful four-day trip to Europe.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has already made history, and with a South Florida angle.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson had to endure hours of public scrutiny from skeptics during her Senate hearings this past week, and that's something familiar to many Black women.

In a story published March 25, 2022, about the Black News Channel shutting down, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the channel's chief investor.

Empathy is not a quality many Republican senators want to see in the next Supreme Court justice.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has announced his intention to support the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, pushing her one step closer to confirmation.

After more than 30 hours of hearings, the Senate is on track to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

The historic Senate hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's the first Black woman nominated for the Supreme Court, have been joyful, combative and clarifying.

The testimony on Thursday — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s fourth day of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings — will include witnesses who have evaluated her capacity to serve as Supreme Court justice.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says that if confirmed to the Supreme Court she’d sit out an affirmative action lawsuit over Harvard’s admission policies because she sits on the board of her college alma mater.

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey drew tears from Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson at her confirmation hearing with the words, “You are worthy,” and others like them.