Senate Judiiary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., announced Wednesday that the confirmation hearing for President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will begin Monday, March 21.
Jackson, the first Black woman to be nominated to the high court, will deliver remarks and answer questions at the hearing as senators determine whether or not she shall replace Justice Stephen Breyer, who is set to retire at the end of the court’s current term.
“As I have said from the time that Justice Breyer announced his retirement, the Committee will undertake a fair and timely process to consider Judge Jackson’s nomination,” Durbin said in a letter to the committee.
The first day of the hearing will be limited to statements from each member of the committee, as well as those who will formally introduce Jackson, and Jackson herself. The next two days, Tuesday, March 22 and Wednesday, March 23, will be for senators to question Jackson, and the committee will meet behind closed doors March 23 to go over Jackson’s FBI background investigation.
