United States: end of the examination of the candidacy of Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the judge appointed to the Supreme Court by Joe Biden, facing the Senate, March 22, 2022. © Carolyn Kaster/AP

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court are coming to an end.

If confirmed, she will be the first black woman to serve on America's highest court.

For four days, she endeavored to convince the senators. 

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Ketanji Brown Jackson presents impeccable credentials for his future work as a Supreme Court justice.

This is the conclusion of

The representatives of this association of lawyers in the country also explain that nothing shows that in his career as a judge, Ketanji Brown Jackson showed particular indulgence.

Yet this is where the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee relentlessly attacked her, suggesting that as a court-appointed lawyer, she had defended terrorists by choice, that she was in favor critical theories of race which denounce the systemic racism of society and, in a speech close to certain conspiracy theses, that it had even pronounced particularly light sentences against paedocriminals.

Each time, the 51-year-old lawyer showed great composure, while

rather than on her work as a judge.

An exception, however, when, like many Democrats,

, defended her with passion: saying that she deserved to be nominated, that she was worthy of it and that she was a great American.

There, Ketanji Brown Jackson still had to pull out a handkerchief. 

Given the Democratic majority in the Senate, Ketanji Brown Jackson is likely to be confirmed by a vote in early April. 

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