Democrats abandoned Ketanji Brown Jackson. Black women came to bear witness

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin opined that only those few poorly behaved Senators “accused her of vile things in front of her parents, her husband and her children,” which wasn’t strictly true. If Congress doesn't like it, the job of Congress is to change the sentencing guidelines.” For all the criticisms of her tenure as vice president — some fair and many unfair — Kamala Harris’s absence from the committee, where she made a name for herself grilling Justice Brett Kavanaugh, was sorely felt throughout Jackson’s hearings. “She means a lot to me, it’s been a long time coming in the history of our Supreme Court to have somebody like Judge Jackson on the court,” said Senator Mazie Hirono, the first Asian American elected female Senator, who was present. There’s “a historic feeling, as our friend Cory Booker described,” Klobuchar said, “.People have been waiting a long, long time for this moment and they wanted to be here in person.” From Phillis Wheatley to Harriet Tubman to Fannie Lou Hamer, Black women have worked tirelessly throughout American history to make sure that the country lives up to the ideals it proclaims.