Unfortunately, through history we have had people, some well intentioned, who tried to delegitimize the Supreme Court.

You face a much harsher judge than this Committee, and that is the judgment of history, and that judgment is likely to revolve around the question, did she restrict freedom or did she expand it?

The decisions of the Court line up in an astonishingly clear pattern with the interests of big Republican dark money donors.

Partially it is, Senator. To be honest with you, it is.

Will a Justice protect the rights of the people, the rights of State legislatures?

Will you protect the rights of Americans to speak, to say unpopular ideas?

the expectation that a nominee to the Supreme Court should have a judicial philosophy... bothers me a bit.

Your presence will ensure the Court more fully and deeply understands the lives and experiences of everyday Americans.

The unpleasant fact is that the present Court is the Court that dark money built.

You, Judge Jackson, are one of Mr. Lincoln's living witnesses of an America that is unafraid of challenge.

Your rich, complex, and deep decisional record gives us the best possible evidence of what kind of Justice you will be.

There have been charges made... that she is somehow part of a, quote, 'anti-incarceration anti-police movement.'

Judge Jackson is an independent jurist who adjudicates based on the facts and the law, not as a partisan.

Engaging in the politics of personal destruction is not something we should ever aspire to.

In my opinion, a Justice's job is to interpret the text and words of the Constitution as written, and give them their original meaning.

I do not want an activist at either end of the spectrum.

If you are confirmed, you would be the first ever Federal public defender to sit on the Court.

we even within the Constitution spell out the oath to be taken by the President of the United States, and it's to uphold and defend this document.

You have the perspectives of someone who has seen the law through the eyes of those closest to it.

For those who say they need more, I would answer that you have sat down personally with every Member on this dais of the Committee, Democrats and Republicans.

The Constitution must work for all Americans, not just the wealthy and powerful.

The conduct that's been described is reprehensible and I think everyone in this room agrees.

Eternal vigilance, it's been said, is the price of liberty.

As Justice Scalia taught us, an indispensable feature of the republic the Constitution created is an independent judiciary of judges who've taken an oath not to a President or a party, but to the American people and to God that they will…

Will a Justice vote to protect your right to live according to your faith?