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\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\nMonday was the court’s opening day and Jackson’s first on the Supreme Court bench. The justices were about five minutes into their questioning in what turned out to be a nearly two-hour argument in a dispute over the nation\u2019s main anti-water pollution law when Jackson asked her first question; she was the fourth justice to do so. <\/p>\n
By the end of arguments, she had probed the meaning of the word \u201cadjacent,” asked whether a marsh in a 1985 case was \u201cvisually indistinguishable from the abutting creek” and prefaced another question by saying: “Let me try to bring some enlightenment to it by asking it this way.”<\/p>\n
Jackson was confirmed in April but did not take her seat until the court began its summer recess in June, giving her months to study cases the court had granted. Other justices spent some of that time finalizing opinions in cases that included decisions overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights case and expanding gun rights.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in early April, days before Jackson was confirmed, Justice Amy Coney Barrett noted \u201cfortunately there will be some lead time\u201d for the new justice to ease into her role. Barrett, in contrast, heard her first arguments a week after she was confirmed. Justice Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in on a Saturday and heard his first argument the following Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Justices themselves have acknowledged it takes time to get used to sitting on the highest court in the land. Justice Elena Kagan once compared starting the job to \u201c drinking out of a fire hose \u201d with a learning curve that \u201cis extremely steep, sometimes it seems vertical.\u201d Some justices have said it takes five years to feel really comfortable in the role.<\/p>\n
In her Library of Congress appearance, Jackson talked about the attention on her as the first Black woman to be a justice. People approach her with \u201cwhat I can only describe as a profound sense of pride and what feels to me like renewed ownership,” she said.<\/p>\n
Their message to her is \u201cin essence, \u2018You go, girl,\u201d\u2019 Jackson said. \u201cThey’re saying \u2018Invisible no more. We see you and we are with you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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