Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed as Supreme Court Justice
variety.comWilliam Earl Federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed Thursday as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice following contentious Senate hearings that revolved around political flashpoints.Jackson, 51, becomes the first Black woman to earn a seat on the nation’s highest court after the 53-47 confirmation vote in the Senate that mostly fell along partisan lines.Three Republicans broke ranks to affirm the confirmation of the jurist who was appointed to several as a federal judge for the Washington, D.C.
circuit in 2012 by President Barack Obama. Last year, President Joe Biden appointed her to the court of appeals for the D.C.
Circuit.The fact that Jackson had been confirmed twice by the Senate in the past decade added to the sense of political grandstanding around the hearings earlier this week.
Several Republican senators grilled Jackson about her past rulings on crimes involving child pornography, with nods to outrageous tropes spread by the far-right fringe about liberal Democrats.
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