Supreme Court nominee Jackson doesn't 'quite remember the basis' for Dred Scott decision
March 22, 2022 at 14:46 PM EDT
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who President Biden nominated to the Supreme Court to become the first ever Black female justice, admitted Tuesday that she could not recall the basis for the infamous Dred Scott decision, which in 1857 said that a Black person whose ancestors had been slaves could not be an American citizen.