Black women feel sting of ‘traumatizing’ Jackson hearings


              Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., questions Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
            
              Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., questions Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
            
              Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
            
              FILE - Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson answers a question by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as she testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 22, 2022. Jackson has had to endure hours of public scrutiny from skeptics, something familiar to many Black women. The Harvard-educated Jackson is making history, the first Black woman nominated in the court's 233 years. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
            
              FILE - Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asks a question of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 23, 2022, during her confirmation hearing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
            
              FILE - Melanie Campbell, president of the National Coalition on Civic Participation, speaks to a reporter on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 15, 2015. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has had to endure hours of public scrutiny from skeptics, something familiar to many Black women. For Campbell, “It was really traumatizing to watch,” she said. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)
            
              FILE - Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 23, 2022. The Harvard-educated Jackson is making history, the first Black woman nominated in the court's 233 years. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Black women feel sting of ‘traumatizing’ Jackson hearings