Ketanji Brown Jackson: five things you may not know about the US Supreme Court hopeful

The nominated judge met Matt Damon at Harvard and knits to relieve stress

US Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn-in during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in at confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee
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Ketanji Brown Jackson has told the committee who will decide whether she becomes the first black woman to sit on the US Supreme Court that she will apply the law “without fear or favour”.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.