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Redistricting fight over who is Black in Louisiana voting map : NPR

Since a 2003 ruling by the Supreme Court, that definition of "Black" has included every person who identifies as Black on census forms — including people who check off the boxes for Black and any other racial or ethnic category such as white, Asian and Hispanic or Latino, which the federal government considers to be an ethnicity that can be of any race.

Republican state officials, however, have called for narrower definitions of Blackness that do not include people who also identify with another minority group.

Citing no evidence, GOP officials in Alabama argued in lower court filings that limiting the definition to people who mark just the "Black" box and do not identify as Latino for the census would be "most defensible."

And in the Louisiana case — Ardoin v. Robinson — officials have been arguing for the definition to only include people who check off either just the "Black" box or both "Black" and "White" and do not identify as Latino.

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What to expect from the Senate confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson : NPR

Confirmation hearings begin Monday for Ketanji Brown Jackson, the federal judge President Biden has picked to fill Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's seat when he retires this summer.

Democrats are hoping to finish Jackson's confirmation process before Congress leaves for Easter recess April 11.

I am very impressed by Ketanji Jackson, I like the idea of a legal aid attorney on the Supreme Court to bring balance to an institution dominated by prosecutors. Often I think president's first nominees are the best - I also was impressed by Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor and John Roberts. Often second and third choices to the court by presidents are back benchers, the people the president previously passed over as not as good. Wish her best of luck in her confirmation, she'll be great for the court.