Highlights from Senate vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson

Judge Jackson, the nation's first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, has cleared 19-hours of grueling questioning at the Senate Judiciary Committee and appears headed toward confirmation as a justice with support from all Democrats and a small number of Republicans.

"In my capacity as a justice, I would do what I've done for the past decade," Jackson told the committee on her third day of testimony, "which is to rule from a position of neutrality, to look carefully at the facts and … to render rulings that I believe and that I hope that people would have confidence in."

The historic hearings resume at 9 a.m. and will wrap for the week after the committee hears from representatives from the American Bar Association -- which has given its highest rating to Jackson -- and outside witnesses called by Democrats and Republicans on the committee. Senators have five-minute rounds for questions Thursday.

Judiciary Committee Democrats have invited Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus; Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Jackson's former classmate; Risa Goluboff, the first woman to serve as dean of University of Virginia Law School; Richard Rosenthal, an appellate attorney and longtime friend to Jackson; and Capt. Frederick Thomas, president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.

As several Republicans on the committee have painted Jackson as "soft on crime," the GOP has called for their panel Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall; Jennifer Mascott, an assistant law professor at George Mason University; Eleanor McCullen, an anti-abortion rights activist; Keisha Russell of First Liberty; and Alessandro Serano, an activist against human trafficking.

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After nearly 11 hours, the Senate Judiciary Committee's second day of questioning has ended. Jackson had two emotional moments towards the end of the day as she gave answers to Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Alex Padilla.

While Jackson is done for the day, the senators are not. They'll now go into a closed session to review Jackson's FBI background check -- a part of the process for every nominee.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., ended the day thanking her for her "patience, dignity and grace" amid some "offensive treatment."

Durbin said the committee will consider the nomination on March 28 at 3 p.m. ET. That means the committee vote will be one week later, per tradition.

That puts the full Senate on track to meet its goal of confirming Jackson by April 8 -- when the Senate goes on recess.

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Jackson again wiped away tears during Wednesday's questioning when Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., asked her what she'd say to "young Americans, the most diverse generation in our nation's history … some of them who may doubt that they can one day achieve the same great heights that you have?"

Jackson responded, "I hope to inspire people."

Jackson wiped away tears, saying, "Young people are the future … I want them to know that they can do and be anything."

She remained emotional as she recounted an experience she had as a freshman at Harvard.

Harvard "was different from anything I had known. There were lots of students there who were prep school kids -- like my husband -- who knew all about Harvard, and that was not me," she said, as the crowd laughed.

"The first semester I was really home sick. I was really questioning, 'Do I belong here? Can I make it in this environment?'" Jackson recounted. "And I was walking through the yard in the evening and a Black woman I did not know was passing me on the sidewalk. And she looked at me, and I guess she knew how I was feeling. And she leaned over as we crossed and said, 'Persevere.'"

Circling back to Padilla's question, Jackson said she'd tell young Americans "to persevere."

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., called out Republicans for accusing Jackson of being soft on sentencing in child porn cases, noting that Jackson wasn't questioned in this way when she was appointed last year to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Booker said to Jackson, "You were put on a court, that I'm told, is considered like the second most powerful court in our land. And you were passed with bipartisan support. Nobody brought it up then. Did they not do their homework?"

The Republicans' "allegations appear meritless to the point of demagoguery," Booker said.

Booker, overcome with emotion, said to Jackson when he looks at her he sees his mom and cousins, noting one of his cousins was sitting behind her at the hearing. "She had to have your back. I see my ancestors and yours," he said.

Jackson wiped away tears as Booker spoke.

Booker stressed, "Nobody is going to steal that joy. You have earned this spot. You are worthy."

He later added: "God has got you."