{"id":1659,"date":"2024-02-05T05:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T13:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2024-02-02T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T23:31:24","slug":"ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketanji Brown Jackson: Supreme Court Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ketanjibrownjacksonfc.jpg?resize=402%2C477&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"477\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20713\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ketanji Brown Jackson: Supreme Court Justice<\/em><br \/>\nby Emily Dolbear (Author)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/42rsqb4\">Amazon<\/a>* | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781503880603\">Bookshop<\/a>*<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> On June 30, 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the 116th Supreme Court justice. In that moment, she also became the first Black woman to serve on the highest court in the United States. This middle grade biography explores Jackson&#8217;s childhood, education, and adulthood, providing readers with a better understanding of who Jackson is and what led to her historic seat on the US Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> &#8220;On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 47, and this nomination is confirmed,&#8221; announced the vice president. Loud applause broke out on the Senate floor of the US Capitol. For almost a minute, many senators recognized the historic moment with clapping and cheers.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. <em>(*bookstore affiliate<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ketanji Brown Jackson: Supreme Court Justice by Emily Dolbear (Author) @ Amazon* | Bookshop* Booktalk: On June 30, 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the 116th Supreme Court justice. In that moment, she also became the first Black woman to serve on the highest court in the United States. This middle grade biography &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-justice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ketanji Brown Jackson: Supreme Court Justice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-qL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1861,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/we-sing-from-the-heart\/","url_meta":{"origin":1659,"position":0},"title":"We Sing From the Heart","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"April 28, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"We Sing From the Heart: How The Slants\u00ae Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court by Mia Wenjen (Author) and Victor Bizar G\u00f3mez (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Music is a way to transcend cultures and divides. 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