
How the Supreme Court confirmation process works
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Joe Biden has nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, fulfilling the President's promise to pick a Black woman. Here's what to know about the confirmation process in the Senate.
What happens next?
There will be hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin. Activist groups and senators will pore over Jackson's record. Usually the candidate is a judge -- and Jackson sits on the federal appellate court in Washington, DC -- but there's no requirement in the Constitution that the person be a judge or even a lawyer. That's just the recent custom.
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