Supreme Court pick Jackson edges closer to confirmation

By Reuters Posted on March 24, 2022

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies on the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. U.S., March 23, 2022. Jabin Botsford/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

By Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley and David Morgan

Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, on Thursday moved closer to securing Senate confirmation in the next two weeks, while experts from the nation’s leading lawyers’ group dismissed Republican claims that she was “soft on crime” including child pornography.