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UKRAINE … takes key Kyiv suburb; battle for Mariupol rages
Associated Press, Nebi Qena et al.March 22, 2022

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said it retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, as Russian forces squeezed other areas near the capital and pressed their attack on the embattled southern port of Mariupol.

Explosions and bursts of gunfire shook Kyiv, and black smoke rose from a spot in the north. Intensified artillery fire could be heard from the northwest, where Russia has sought to encircle and capture several suburban areas of the capital, a crucial target.

Residents sheltered at home or underground under a 35-hour curfew imposed by city authorities that runs to Wednesday morning.

SUPREME COURT … Key moments from Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination hearings – Day 2
PBS NewsHourMarch 22, 2022 (17:13)

Facing questions about her record as a judge, the role of the Supreme Court in setting law and the constitutionality of recent sweeping legal decisions, Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke with senators for a second day of confirmation hearings. Jackson rebutted accusations that she has supported the teaching of critical race theory in elementary schools, championed too-lenient sentencing for some criminals and clarified language from previous legal opinions during combative questioning from several GOP senators

SUPREME COURT …Sen. Cory Booker questions Jackson in confirmation hearings
PBS NewsHourMarch 22, 2022 (28:47)

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the Senate Judiciary Committee continued its Supreme Court confirmation hearings March 22.

Booker asked Jackson about previous questions she had received from Republican senators suggesting her record of sentencing people convicted in child porn cases showed too much leniency.

Booker argued that judges are given discretion in sentencing, and that Jackson’s sentences were in line with those from other judges who had been appointed by both Republican and Democratic administrations.

“One of my favorite mayor friends used to always say in ‘God we trust, but everybody else bring me data.’ …. The data kind of shows that you’re not some outlier,” Booker said. “I was a little insulted by the accusation that somehow, this mother of two, confirmed three times by the United States Senate, who has victim advocacy groups writing letters for you, who has child victims advocacy groups supporting you, who has presided over fact-specific cases of the most heinous crimes …. that you are somehow out of the norm of other federal judges that we have confirmed where these issues had never come up,” Booker said.

Jackson was nominated by President Joe Biden in February to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. If confirmed, she will be the first Black woman on the high court. After opening statements from Jackson, her colleagues and the senators March 21, senators will spend two days questioning Jackson at length about her rulings and judicial philosophy. On the final day of the hearings March 24, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from friends and colleagues of Jackson about her temperament and approach to the law.

SUPREME COURT … Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court confirmation hearings – Day 2
March 22, 2022 – 8:30 am (ET)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/21/politics/kavanaugh-jackson-hearing-analysis/index.html

SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.. GOP grievances feature during Jackson hearing
CNN, Joan BiskupicMarch 21, 2022

The Republican grievances run deep.

On the first day of hearings for President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, GOP senators went beyond complaints about the 2018 Brett Kavanaugh and 2020 Amy Coney Barrett hearings. They dredged up the 1987 Robert Bork and 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings.

It’s a well-worn adage that each Supreme Court nomination picks up where the last one ended — accompanied by all the partisan hard feelings and sense of payback. But the Jackson hearings were shadowed Monday by a long list of GOP grievances tied to past nominations.

SUPREME COURT … Jackson faces pointed questions at Senate hearing
Associated Press, Mary Clare Jalonick et al.March 22, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson faced senators’ questions for the first time Tuesday as Democrats push to quickly confirm the only Black female justice in the court’s 233-year history.

Jackson, a federal appeals court judge, sat and silently listened to more than four hours of senators’ opening statements on Monday, the first of four days of Judiciary Committee hearings on her nomination. As senators began 30-minute rounds of grilling on Tuesday, she faced their specific points, including charges by some Republicans that she has been too lenient in sentencing on criminal matters.

Tuesday’s hearing is the first of two days of questioning. On Thursday, the committee will hear from legal experts before an eventual vote to move her nomination to the Senate floor. Barring unexpected developments, Democrats who control the Senate by the slimmest of margins hope to wrap up Jackson’s confirmation before Easter, though Breyer is not leaving the court until after the current session ends this summer.

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