MORNING HEADLINES | In a hot pink suit and sparkling smile, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warmly presided over a sold-out, cheering Tuesday crowd of 1,800 fans at Charleston Gaillard Center.

“I’m very aware that I’m the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, but not the first who could have done this job,” she said. in reflections with U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel that focused on her acclaimed 2024 memoir, “Lovely One.”

In a conversation punctuated by a photographic slide show of her family pictures and a few seminal figures, Gergel guided the justice through key details of her trajectory from being a Miami-raised child of a Southern family to her current seat.

These included the impact of her maternal grandparents from southern Georgia, the role of

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