Black Justice Jackson, nominated by Biden to the Supreme Court, in the Senate test
Appointed by Joe Biden to the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson must convince, from Monday, the senators to validate this historic choice and make her the first black woman to sit within the influential institution. This brilliant 51-year-old lawyer will be auditioned publicly until Thursday by the Judiciary Committee of the Upper House of Congress, a compulsory passage for candidates for the high court which, in recent years, has given rise to bitter political battles.
The elected officials are combative because "the Court decides a lot of crucial subjects, some of which are explosive", such as the right to abortion or to carry a firearm, notes Larry Sabato, professor of political science at the University of Virginia. . But the arrival of Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace the progressive magistrate Stephen Breyer, who will retire in the summer, "will not change the balance: the conservatives will keep a majority of six judges out of nine", recalls the analyst. "That should be enough to bring the temperature down and ensure a fairly serene confirmation process."
Ukraine rejects Russian ultimatum to surrender in Mariupol
Ukraine will not "lay down its arms and will not leave the besieged city" of Mariupol, its Deputy Prime Minister told Ukrainian media overnight from Sunday to Monday, in response to the ultimatum posed by Russia. "There is no question of talking about surrender or laying down arms. We have already informed the Russian side about this," Iryna Vereshchuk told the Ukrayinskaya Pravda newspaper. "It's deliberate manipulation and real hostage-taking," she added of the request. The Russian Defense Ministry had called on Ukraine to "lay down its arms" and demanded a "written response" to its ultimatum before 5 a.m. Monday, in the name of safeguarding the inhabitants and infrastructure of the city of Mariupol.
"We ask the official authorities in Kyiv to be reasonable and to cancel the instructions given previously, which obliged the militants to sacrifice themselves and to become + martyrs of Mariupol +", had demanded Mikhail Mizintsev, director of the Russian National Management Center defense, in a briefing issued by Russia's Defense Ministry. "Lay down your arms," he said. "A terrible humanitarian catastrophe has unfolded (...) All those who lay down their arms are guaranteed to be able to leave Mariupol in complete safety".
Ukraine: Zelensky sees Jerusalem as "the right place to find peace"
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said overnight from Sunday to Monday that Jerusalem would be "the right place to find peace" by referring to the negotiations with Russia, which he calls for. "Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is trying to find a way for negotiation with Russia and we are grateful to him for all his efforts, so that sooner or later we can start the discussion with Russia, maybe at Jerusalem. This is the right place to find peace. If possible," the head of state said in a video posted on Telegram.
Naftali Bennett tried to launch a mediation between Ukraine and Russia, traveling to Moscow to meet Mr. Putin, shortly after the start of the invasion, and multiplying telephone conversations with Mr. Zelensky. Volodymyr Zelensky also joked about "Russian propagandists" who have "a difficult task", "because for the first time in history, a president of a foreign nation spoke via video recording in the Knesset and in front of the whole nation of Israel. The president of Ukraine, who is accused of Nazism in Russia, spoke in the Knesset, in front of the nation of Israel."
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Ukraine's leaders "neo-Nazis" and has put the "denazification" of Ukraine among the objectives of his military offensive launched on February 24. Mr. Zelensky, himself of Jewish origin, had asked Israel on Sunday to “make a choice” by concretely supporting Ukraine against Russia, during a videoconference speech before the deputies of the Israeli Parliament.
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