If confirmed, judge jackson will be the sixth woman and fourth person of color. She would also be the first member of the supreme court ever to have served as a public defender. Judge Jackson helped dial down harsh penalties for crack cocaine offences. When she was a tena juror, an uncle of hers was imprisoned for life for a minor drug crime. He was granted clemency 30 years later by president obama.
On the ground, Ukrainian resistance is holding—so far—and Vladimir Putin’s nuclear posturing reveals a crumbling of his plans. Meanwhile the international response grows more serious and more united. We examine President Joe Biden’s savvy Supreme Court pick, Ketanji Brown Jackson. And how to get around the fact that eyewitness testimony can be fuzzy or change over time.
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