<span style="color: #222222;">The Senate Judiciary Committee is beginning historic confirmation hearings today for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who would be the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.<br />''<br />''Jackson is expected to present an opening statement Monday afternoon and thereafter answer questions from the committee's 11 Democrats and 11 Republicans over the next two days. She will be introduced by Thomas B. Griffith, a retired judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Lisa M. Fairfax, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.</span><br />