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Ketanji Brown Jackson Becomes First Black Woman Confirmed to the Supreme Court
President Biden’s pick to replace Justice Stephen Breyer was voted onto the bench with bipartisan support following a confirmation process marred by Republican conspiracy theories
RYAN BORT

Ketanji Brown Jackson will become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm President Biden’s pick to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. The 53-47 vote went as expected, with all 50 Democrats voting to confirm Jackson, along with three Republicans: Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitt Romney. Collins, Murkowski, and Romney had all announced previously that they intended to vote for Jackson. Jackson will take the bench upon Breyer’s retirement at the conclusion of the court’s summer session.

Jackson’s confirmation is a huge win for President Biden, who has so far been unable to get key parts of his legislative agenda through Congress despite Democrats holding majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Biden had been pushing hard for Jackson’s confirmation in the weeks and days leading up to the vote. “Judge Jackson will bring extraordinary qualifications, deep experience and intellect, and a rigorous judicial record to the Supreme Court,” he tweeted on Monday. “She deserves to be confirmed as the next Justice.

Jackson qualifications are indeed extraordinary. She’ll become the only justice on the court to have a degree from an Ivy League law school, have clerked for a Supreme Court justice, have served as a public defender, have sat on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, have served as a district judge, and to have served as a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jackson is also the first ....

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... t-1333717/

GOP Threatens to Block Future Biden Supreme Court Picks as Jackson Advances

Republicans made it clear that advancing Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination on an 11-11 vote might be Joe Biden's last chance to pick who he wants for the Supreme Court.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/ar ... n-advances

Considering they did their darndest to block Ketanji Brown's appointment, it seems to me the GOP warning is a bit of a farce. They would do it just out of habit. When it's their turn they look for the worst possible nominees with the only criteria being the nominee's fanatical conservative rulings regardless of the law. Then, even if the Dems put up Jesus Christ, they would oppose him to the hilt.

That much is clear ....

Mitch McConnell just moved the goalposts – again – on Supreme Court nominees

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics ... index.html