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Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the Senate Judiciary Committee continued its Supreme Court confirmation hearings March 23. She asked Jackson about her creative outlets, how she keeps her workplace discrimination free and the influence going to public high school had on her life.
“I was fortunate to go to public school in Florida, where I had a wide range of classmates, and a wonderful opportunity to learn, at the end of the day, they were not different from me,” Jackson said.
Jackson also spoke about taking up crochet later in life, something her mother -- "an expert crochet artist -- tried to teach her as a child.
"It didn't quite turn out" back then, Jackson said. "But as I have gone along in my career, and wanting to have some sort of a creative outlet, especially in times of high stress, I started pining for something to do to express my creative side."
She started making hats and scarves and turned to knitting during one of her previous confirmation hearings.
"I needed something to keep my mind off of the stress. So I I have a basement full of yarn if you would like to come over," she told Hirono.
It was senators’ final day to question Jackson, who was nominated by President Joe Biden in February to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. If confirmed, she will be the first Black woman on the high court. On the final day of the hearings March 24, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from friends and colleagues of Jackson about her temperament and approach to the law.

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