04/08/2022
Congratulations to Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson on her confirmation to the Supreme Court!
From Vox: "Jackson is not only the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, but also the first justice since Thurgood Marshall with significant experience representing criminal defendants. Her confirmation will make the high court more diverse than it has ever been."
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the Supreme Court on Thursday. The Senate voted 53-47.
It’s a historic moment. Jackson is not only the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, but also the first justice since Thurgood Marshall with significant experience representing criminal defendants. Her confirmation will make the high court more diverse than it has ever been. For the first time, it will have:
• A Black woman justice
• Four women
• Three people of color
"But Jackson will join a Court that has, at best, a tenuous relationship with those ideals," writes Vox senior justice correspondent Ian Millhiser. "The current Court, with its Republican supermajority, is more hostile toward voting rights — and specifically to the proposition that states may not write election laws that discriminate on the basis of race — than any Court since the Voting Rights Act became law in 1965."
Jackson’s voice, and impressive resume and career as a federal judge and public defender, is "likely to do little to sway her six Republican colleagues in the most closely watched and most important cases,” notes Millhiser. “Jackson’s mere presence on the Court is a tribute to more than 400 years of struggle to ensure that all Americans will enjoy the blessings of political equality, regardless of race or gender. But she joins it at the very moment that the Court is taking the wrong side in this struggle.”
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