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| On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to serve as a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by retiring Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 20, 2012 |title=President Obama Nominates Two to the United States District Courts |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/20/president-obama-nominates-two-united-states-district-courts |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411040310/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/20/president-obama-nominates-two-united-states-district-courts |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |access-date=March 3, 2021 |website=[[whitehouse.gov]] |via=[[NARA|National Archives]]}}</ref> Jackson was introduced at her December 2012 confirmation hearing by Republican Paul Ryan, a relative through marriage, who said "Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji's intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal."<ref name="nyt" /> On February 14, 2013, her nomination was reported to the full Senate by voice vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 3, 2013 |title=President Obama Re-nominates Thirty-Three to Federal Judgeships |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/03/president-obama-re-nominates-thirty-three-federal-judgeships |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407085130/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/03/president-obama-re-nominates-thirty-three-federal-judgeships |archive-date=April 7, 2020 |access-date=March 3, 2021 |website=[[whitehouse.gov]] |via=[[NARA|National Archives]]}}</ref> She was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote on March 22, 2013. She received her commission on March 26, 2013<ref name="fjc.gov" /> and was sworn in by Justice Breyer in May 2013.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Valencia |first=Milton J. |date=February 25, 2022 |title=Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden's pick for US Supreme Court? |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/25/nation/who-is-ketanji-brown-jackson-bidens-nominee-us-supreme-court |accessdate=February 25, 2022}}</ref>
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| During her time on the District Court, Jackson wrote multiple decisions adverse to the positions of the Trump administration. In her opinion ordering Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a legislative subpoena, she wrote "presidents are not kings".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Marimow |first=Ann |date=June 14, 2021 |title=Senate confirms D.C. Circuit nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Merrick Garland |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-sentate-confirmation-vote/2021/06/14/14da742a-cd3a-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html |url-status=live |access-date=June 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615125504/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-sentate-confirmation-vote/2021/06/14/14da742a-cd3a-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html |archive-date=June 15, 2021}}</ref> Jackson handled a number of challenges to executive agency actions that raised questions of [[Administrative Law|administrative law]]. She also issued rulings in several cases that gained particular political attention.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Savage |first=Charlie |date=January 26, 2022 |title=Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is among the leading candidates to succeed Justice Breyer. |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201215753/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court.html |archive-date=February 1, 2022}}</ref>
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| ''Bloomberg Law'' reported in spring 2021 that conservative activists were pointing to certain decisions by Jackson that had been reversed on appeal as a "potential blemish on her record".<ref name=":0" /> In 2019, Jackson ruled that provisions in three Trump executive orders conflicted with federal employee rights to collective bargaining. Her decision was reversed unanimously by the D.C. Circuit. Another 2019 decision, involving a challenge to a Department of Homeland Security decision to expand the agency's definition of which noncitizens could be deported, was also reversed by the D.C. Circuit. Nan Aron, president of the liberal Alliance for Justice, defended Jackson's record, saying Jackson "has written nearly 600 opinions and been reversed [fewer] than twelve times".<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Alder |first=Madison |date=April 28, 2021 |title=Circuit Pick Jackson's Reversals a Likely Target for GOP |language=en |work=news.bloomberglaw.com |url=https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/circuit-pick-jacksons-reversals-a-likely-target-for-senate-gop |url-status=live |access-date=February 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201203410/https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/circuit-pick-jacksons-reversals-a-likely-target-for-senate-gop |archive-date=February 1, 2022}}</ref>
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