Former U.S. senator Doug Jones was “blown away” with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, he tweeted Sunday.
“This past week,” Jones wrote, “has only reinforced my belief that she is not only immensely qualified, but truly a justice for this moment that our country find(s) itself in.”
This February, Jones was named U.S. President Joe Biden’s Nomination Advisor for Legislative Affairs for a Supreme Court nomination.
The role involves advising Biden and helping guide the nominee, Jackson, through the senate confirmation process.
Jackson is the first Black women to be nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Since 2021, she’s served as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Jackson graduated from Harvard Law School. Raised in Miami and born in Washington, she’s previously served as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Sunday on Twitter, Jones, who represented Alabama in the senate from 2018 to 2021, remarked that while he felt Jackson’s confirmation hearings last week were “bruising.”
“There is nothing easy about this process. But the way Judge Jackson navigated complex and sometimes unfair questions and remained composed and articulate was astounding. Folks will say we prepped her well. But I would say that is who she is.”
Earlier in Jones’ career, he was the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. During that time he successfully prosecuted two Klu Klux Klan members for the infamous 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963 that killed four Black girls in Birmingham.
The 22-member U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on Jackson’s nomination on April 4. If confirmed, she would become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
“A few weeks down. A few more to go,” Jones wrote on his Twitter account. “But it has been such an immense honor to serve as her guide, and I can’t wait to see her join the court as the newest United States Supreme Court Justice.”
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