Senate confirms Jackson as first Black woman on Supreme Court

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BumRushDaShow (94,774 posts)


Senate confirms Jackson as first Black woman on Supreme Court

Source: Washington Post




Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson listens during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill last month. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)


The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, felling one of the most significant remaining racial barriers in American government and sending the first Democratic nominee to the high court in 12 years. Jackson, a daughter of schoolteachers who has risen steadily through America’s elite legal ranks, will become the first Black woman to sit on the court and only the eighth who is not a White man.

She will replace Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer after the Supreme Court’s term ends in late June or early July. Thursday’s 53-47 vote represents the culmination of a six-week whirlwind confirmation process for the 51-year-old federal appeals judge.

It began in February with President Biden introducing Jackson as a distinguished nominee who would “help write the next chapter in the history of the journey of America” and reached a climax during two days of tense Senate hearings last month where Republicans sought to paint her as a left-wing radical who had cosseted criminals and terrorists, only for three GOP senators to ultimately reject those claims and support her confirmation.

Underscoring the partisan tensions, Jackson’s confirmation came only after the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked on her nomination along party lines and Republicans forced three procedural votes on the Senate floor this week. But Democrats said Thursday that her confirmation should a cause for national reflection and jubilation.“This milestone should have happened generations ago — generations ago — but we are always trotting on a path towards a more perfect union,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. “America today is taking a giant step towards making our union more perfect.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/07/jackson-confirmation-vote-senate/

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DUmmies are creaming themselves over this.

[Ralph Wiggum]

DUmmies are creaming themselves over this.

Can you imagine if DUmmyville existed in 1991, or had Janice Rogers Brown had put up for a vote during the Bush #43 terms? Their outward racism would have been on full display, as it is on a daily basis regarding Sen. Tim Scott, Ben Carson, or any Black conservative who strays from the liberal plantation. 

[jukin]

So the WAPOO has a biologist on staff?

[SVPete]

So the WAPOO has a biologist on staff?

If so, maybe (s)he should inform Jackson that she is a she.

Since she was chosen for the melanin content of her skin and her reproductive plumbing rather than for actual qualifications, I expect she may prove to be one of the worst USSC Justices ever.

[DefiantSix]

If so, maybe (s)he should inform Jackson that she is a she.

Since she was chosen for the melanin content of her skin and her reproductive plumbing rather than for actual qualifications, I expect she may prove to be one of the worst USSC Justices ever.

I dunno...

FDR had an actual Klanner on the Court. That one will still be hard to beat...

[YupItsMe]

I'm sure Martin Luther King is thrilled that 55 years later we're hiring people based on their skin color.