President Joe Biden’s first Supreme Court nominee is one step closer to serving on the nation’s highest bench. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation hearing is now underway. Miami-raised and Harvard-educated, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was a criminal defense lawyer earlier in her career. She’s been serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals since 2021.…

When President Joe Biden named Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill retiring Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat on the United States Supreme Court, he fulfilled a campaign promise. If confirmed, Jackson will become the first Black female associate justice in history.  “For too long, our government and courts haven’t looked like America,” President Joe Biden said during…

The nomination hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson began with statements from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Jackson. Questioning is expected to begin Tuesday, with the nomination hearing wrapping up on Thursday. “Members of this committee, If I am confirmed, I commit to you that I will work productively to support…

In a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines, the Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Friday’s ruling came almost nine years after the bombing happened and reversed a 2020 appeals court ruling that threw out the death sentence. “On April 15, 2013, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev planted and detonated two…

The White House and President Joe Biden confirmed Biden plans to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson as the next Supreme Court justice. In a tweet, Biden described Jackson as “one of our nation’s brightest legal minds” and said she “will be an exceptional justice.” “Judge Jackson is an exceptionally qualified nominee as well as an historic…

A spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has confirmed two of his prosecutors who were in charge of his criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization have decided to resign. According to a New York Times report, Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz resigned after Bragg raised doubts about pursuing a case…

President Biden’s announcement that he would nominate a Black woman to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court wasn’t entirely a surprise. By making that pronouncement, he was essentially fulfilling a promise made on the 2020 campaign trail. But the implications of that pledge go far beyond the historical barrier he…

According to a letter written to the National Archives, President Joe Biden has ordered former President Donald Trump’s White House visitor logs be handed over to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. The letter, sent Tuesday and released publicly Wednesday, once again rejects former President Trump’s claims of executive privilege over the…

As the investigation into the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol continues, investigators told the New York Times there are gaps in the White House telephone logs from that day. The Times reported the gaps include calls involving former President Donald Trump at times when investigators knew he was making them. As Trump often…

President Biden is promising to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, and while critics are taking aim at his plan, it’s critical that he make a move sooner rather than later. Biden’s nominee will take the place of Stephen Breyer, a liberal who recently announced his retirement. It will not change the balance of…