Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., asked Ketanji Brown Jackson about whether the Constitution protects the rights of people to have an abortion during the second day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings March 22.
Jackson said the Supreme Court considers the right to an abortion to be an unenumerated right
Blackburn also asked about a brief Jackson had written calling anti-abortion protestors “hostile.” Jackson said that brief was written on behalf of a client in Massachusetts who was looking at buffer zones around abortion clinics.
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.
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