The full upper chamber voted 53-47—with the support of three Republicans—to advance the federal judge’s historic high court candidacy to a final Senate floor vote. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the United States Supreme Court cleared a minor hurdle Monday after the U.S. Senate overcame a deadlocked Judiciary Committee via a procedural vote in […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Monday a coalition of 18 groups advocating for the civil and human rights of all Alaskans called upon Sen. Lisa Murkowski to support the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. The coalition is led by The Alaska Center, and also includes Alaska Alaska AFL-CIO, NAACP- Anchorage Branch, ENLACES, […]
ANCHORAGE – The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed legislation that would improve oil spill response in Western Alaska as part of an annual authorization bill for the U.S. Coast Guard. Section 510 of H.R. 6865 would establish Western Alaska Oil Spill Planning Criteria, making the process for complying with oil spill response requirements […]
In a letter, the groups assert Republican lawmakers’ aspersions on the U.S. Supreme Court nominee “grossly mischaracterize her work and threaten the ideals of our democracy.” More than 50 civil society organizations on Friday accused Republican senators of engaging in “baseless and harmful attacks” on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Kentanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary […]