A look at the historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and the key questions raised during the Senate hearings for Catholics

During a ceremony celebrating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, Jackson said she would rule independently “without fear or favor.”

“We need her,” Mary Novak, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby, said at the rally about Judge Jackson. “Network’s got your back.”

The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson included 13 hours of questioning about her her views on abortion, critical race theory and her own faith.

This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria discusses the racism underpinning the negative reaction to President Biden’s announcement that his Supreme Court nominee would be a Black woman.

“Our word isn’t racism. It’s relationship.” Those are the words of Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott, who joined “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” to discuss the Dred Scott decision and its ripple effects today.