LIVE VIDEO: Day One Of SCOTUS Confirmation Hearing

Roll Call reports:

The weeklong Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson starts Monday heavy on history and relatively light on political drama. The 51-year-old appeals court judge would be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, and the first justice with experience representing those too poor to afford an attorney; Democrats plan to highlight what that perspective would mean to the court.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine — who, along with Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, joined Democrats to vote to confirm Jackson to the appeals court last year — sounded open to voting for Jackson again after their closed-door meeting ahead of the hearing. Graham is on the Judiciary Committee and will be questioning Jackson this week.

The hearing is scheduled to begin at 11AM.