On Thursday, the Senate approved Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, 53-47,...
President Joe Biden holds hands with Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as they watch the Senate vote to approve her historic confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.In this bitterly polarized age, it is not often that we can commend a group of politicians with unwavering confidence, but this was one of those times.
When she is sworn in this summer, she will become the first Black woman in the history of our highest court. “You are a person that is so much more than your race and gender — you are a Christian, you are a mom, you are an intellect, you love books,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., the only Black member of the 22-member Senate Judiciary Committee, told the nominee during the hearings.Jackson, who earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard, is brilliant and accomplished.