WASHINGTON, April 8 — The United States made history on Thursday as the Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
Jackson picked up support from three Senate Republicans during a gruelling and at times brutal confirmation process, delivering Biden a bipartisan, 53-47 approval for his first Supreme Court nominee. At 42 days, the confirmation will be among the shortest in history, although longer than it took to seat Donald Trump’s last court pick during his presidency, Amy Coney Barrett.As the final word on all civil and criminal legal disputes, as well as guardian and interpreter of the Constitution, the Supreme Court seeks to ensure equal justice under the law.
She replaces the retiring liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, for whom she clerked at the turn of the century. Others implied that she was sympathetic to terrorists due to her work as a federal public defender representing Guantanamo Bay detainees and one even suggested that she would have been sympathetic to Nazi criminals.
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll showed almost half of voters said the Senate should support her. Just 26 per cent didn’t think she deserved a yes vote, while 25 per cent had no opinion.
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