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Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court [Video]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the Senate as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
- Three Republican senators joined all 48 Democrats and two independents in confirming Jackson.
- President Biden hails the vote as a “historic moment for our nation.”
In a historical moment, the Senate on Thursday confirms Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
All 48 Democrats and two independents voted to confirm Jackson to the nation’s highest court. GOP Senators Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine also voted for Jackson’s confirmation.
Jackson will now become the Supreme Court’s 116th justice and the first Black woman ever to be in that position.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who also made history by becoming the country’s first woman, first Black person and first Asian American to be elected as VP, presided over the historic vote. The final tally was 53-47.
Though it was delayed by more than 15 minutes due to Sen. Rand Paul’s absence, the announcement of the result was met with applause.
“I am feeling overjoyed,” Harris told reporters as she left the Senate. “And I am feeling a deep sense of pride in who we are as a nation.
“I think it makes a very important statement about who we aspire to be,” she added. “On our highest court in the land, we want to make sure that there’s going to be full representation of the finest and brightest and best. And that’s what happened today.”
Of the 115 justices that have come before Jackson, 108 were white men, two were Black men, four were white women and one was a Latina woman.
Jackson watched the vote unfold with President Biden at the White House on Thursday.
“Judge Jackson’s confirmation was a historic moment for our nation,” Biden tweeted. “We’ve taken another step toward making our highest court reflect the diversity of America. She will be an incredible Justice, and I was honored to share this moment with her.”
On Friday, Biden and Harris will host Jackson at an event on the South Lawn to celebrate her confirmation.
Biden introduced Jackson as his pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer less than two months ago. He promised during his campaign promise to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court.
Jackson will be sworn in after Breyer officially retires.
In 2009, Jackson was appointed by then-President Barack Obama to serve as vice-chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, working to reduce the penalties for crack cocaine offenders.
Jackson was also nominated by Obama to be a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2012. She was confirmed with bipartisan support in 2013.
Source: Yahoo! News
Clint Stevens
April 8, 2022 at 9:22 am
You can put lipstick on a pig, but they’re still a pig.
Brenda Gauldin
April 9, 2022 at 5:29 pm
To release and down grade the severity ofpedephyles in America is deplorable. The People that voted for this person is ding so with out thinking about their own.
CharlieSeattle
April 8, 2022 at 6:50 pm
Now they have to change the spelling on all their official letter heads to, S☭OTUS
2004done
April 9, 2022 at 8:39 am
No, the “Common-Core’s-Majority” will just drag out the old subversive ones that say “Trust Us, we aren’t OFFICIALLY communists, comrade; most of us only rule as if we were.”
Ox
April 9, 2022 at 8:06 am
The voters need to get rid of these Three RINO’s. Collins, Murkowski, and Romney need to go. These are three vengeful Republicans. There is nothing historic about this vote, using Affirmative Action to seat an African American woman on the Court. It’s historic in the sense, that these brain dead liberal commie Democrats with the help of three RINO’s put an unqualified Jackson on the Supreme Court.
2004done
April 9, 2022 at 8:48 am
In this case it wouldn’t have mattered (harris as Senate President would have been 51/50) But you’re right: the 53 Senators (that have NEVER read the Constitution, or only read what the NYT says it says) have GOT TO GO.
Clint Stevens
April 9, 2022 at 9:03 am
Historic in the sense that as long as someone is black, female, morally sick, and gay they can become a SCOTUS judge.
Clint Stevens
April 9, 2022 at 9:01 am
“historic moment for our nation.” Just like Hitler’s rise to power was to Germany.
MARGARET Warren Buttler
April 9, 2022 at 10:29 am
All Democrates and the rinos all they want is SEX, SEX, AND DRUGS. HAVE YOU EVER WITHNESS A LEFTIE THAT DID NOT PROTECT SEX OFFENDERS OR ALL STOPPING ALL DRUGS POURING OVER OUR BORDERS. I DO NOT TRUST ANY DEMOCRAT EVEN IF HAVE ATTEND MY CHURCH.
AGREE JUST LIKE HITLER.
SicK&Tired
April 9, 2022 at 11:09 pm
How Pathetic for the Senate to Confirm – Jackson into the Supreme Court….A Woman, who can’t even identify what a Woman is…… AND – Now, she is going to try and presume over laws.??? Yep, she is a real winner.?? Thanks Again Oh – Miserable BIDEN….. He just keeps Hurting Our Country- Day in & Day out..!!!!
Heywood Chavis
April 11, 2022 at 10:48 am
Alot of people don’t understand law,The judges are bound by the sentencing guidelines that congress sets,and the prosecutior makes the deals that bounds the judges hands,and her answers in the confirmation was as a judge should answer,(not biased,well thought out,and not based on personal belief,but by the law)because law is its own entity