Ketanji Brown Jackson, US president Joe Biden's nominee to become the first Black woman on the US supreme court, has stressed her patriotism in her opening statement during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.

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Jackson said she was blessed to be 'born in this great nation.' The 51-year-old judge pledged independence if confirmed by the Senate to the nation's top judicial body and embraced a limited role for jurists. 'My parents taught me that, unlike the many barriers that they had had to face growing up, my path was clearer, such that if I worked hard and believed in myself, in America I could do anything or be anything I wanted to be,' Jackson said

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