Committee hearings for President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court (SCOTUS) nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, will begin on March 21 and last four days according to Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). If confirmed, Jackson will replace outgoing Justice Stephen Breyer who at the end of February acceded to pressure from Democrats and liberals to retire while Democrats hold the White House. Amid a flurry of speculation and rumors before Breyer officially announced his retirement, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that Biden would stand by his 2020 campaign promise to nominate a black woman to SCOTUS; though several women have sat on the panel, a black woman has not. Several conservatives have decried the move, which they have said puts a nominee’s race and sex ahead of their qualifications for the job. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) promised that if the nominee is a “woke activist,” Democrats should “expect a major …