On Thursday, Ketanji Jackson was sworn into office as a member of the United States Supreme Court. This is her first African-American woman to do this. Her appointment also broke the court’s white majority for the first time since 233 years. Her arrival doesn’t change the ideological composition the Supreme Court. This is a legacy from the Trump Administration. There will continue to be 6 conservative judges against 3 progressive, including Jackson.
BREAKING: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was officially sworn into office as the Supreme Court’s first Black female justice. https://t.co/1Enp2DZFPWpic.twitter.com/QRnbEXGLJ6
Her superior, Stephen Breyer, a liberal judge, has retired at 83. The new magistrate, 51, has taken over. Jackson will become the sixth woman to hold the post and the third black person after the Senate approved her nomination in April. This vote resulted in 53 votes in favor of Jackson, including all 50 Democrats and three Republicans. . This is Joe Biden’s first appointment since January 2021, when he was elected president.
Jackson said that Jackson was confirmed after he stated, “It took 232 years and the 115 previous appointments but we have succeeded.” In comments collected by ABC News, he said that his children told him that they now know that anything is possible.
The president stated that the “historic swearing in” of the new judge was “a significant step forward for our country, for all young African women who now see their self reflected in our highest courts, and for us all as Americans.” Biden was full of praises for the new magistrate. In a Thursday statement, she said that the Supreme Court had just acquired a colleague with a world-class intellect and the dignity the American people demand of a justice.
Jackson was born in Washington D.C., and grew up here. He graduated from Harvard University, Judge Breyer’s alma mater. In 1999-2000, she began to work for him at the Supreme Court.
Jackson arrives at the highest court of the country in a moment of extreme polarization, and amid great controversy over recent decisions made by magistrates. Jackson’s decision to stop considering abortion as a constitutional right opens the door to each state to regulate it differently and even ban it. He also supports the expansion of civil rights to bear arms, and the restriction of Government efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
This is how the head of the Democratic caucus of the (Lower House of Representatives of Congress) celebrated the fact that “in spite of this court’s cruel attack upon the health, freedom, and security of Americans she will be a powerful force.” essential for equality of all before justice.
