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Photos of the week: Supreme Court confirmation edition

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, is sworn in before delivering her opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, is sworn in before delivering her opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
By Tom Williams and Bill Clark
Posted March 25, 2022 at 12:32pm

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson endured three days of a public job interview conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. Roll Call photojournalists were there each day to document the historic hearings.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives through a back hallway for her Supreme Court confirmation hearings Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Jackson passes Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., upon arriving Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Senate Judiciary Chair Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., and ranking member Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, greet Jackson before her hearing Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Durbin listens to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., far left, make his opening statement Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Jackson’s husband, Patrick, wears socks featuring former President Thomas Jefferson on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Graham questions Jackson on Tuesday, the second day of her confirmation hearings. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Durbin greets Johnny, right, and Ellery Brown, Jackson’s parents, on Tuesday. Rep. Bobby L. Rush, D-Ill., is at left. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Jackson talks with Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, references the children’s book “Antiracist Baby” while questioning Jackson on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Grassley speaks with Durbin during Tuesday’s hearing. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Photographers take pictures of Durbin and Grassley before the start of Day 3 of Jackson’s hearings on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
From left, Georgia Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock talk with former Democratic Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama before the start of Wednesday’s hearing. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., holds up Ossoff‘s notes for the cameras Wednesday as she jokes about his preparation to question Jackson. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
From left, Sens. Cruz, Hawley and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., talk before Cruz’s questioning of Jackson on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, Steve Marshall, attorney general of Alabama, and other witnesses are sworn in on Thursday, the fourth and final day of Jackson’s confirmation hearings. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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