Ketanji Brown Jackson Marks Confirmation To Supreme Court At White House Ceremony: “We Have Come A Long Way Toward Perfecting Our Union”

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Ketanji Brown Jackson said her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court “is a moment in which all Americans can take great pride.”“We have come a long way toward perfecting our union,” Jackson said, to a crowd of hundreds on the South Lawn of the White House. “In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States.”Broadcast and cable networks carried the celebration, a bit unusual for a nominee recently elevated to the high court but matching the historic moment.

She devoted much of her remarks to thanking a slew of family members, friends, mentors, lawmakers and White House officials who steered her nomination through, but also to “the leadership of generations past who helped light the way, back to Martin Luther King Jr., Justice Thurgood Marshall and my personal heroine, Judge Constance Baker Motley.”  Some in the crowd wiped away tears as she quoted Maya Angelou: “I do so now, while bringing the gifts my ancestors gave.”Jackson, 51, was confirmed in a 53-47 vote on Thursday, with three Republicans, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney, joining with all Democrats in favor.

Her confirmation was never really in doubt in the Democratic controlled Senate, but the process was more bruising than expected, as she faced hours of attacks from Republicans who claimed that she had been too lenient as a judge to those convicted of possession of child pornography.President Joe Biden said that “there was verbal abuse, the anger, the constant interruptions, the most vile, baseless assertions and accusations.

In the face of it all, Judge Jackson showed incredible the incredible character and integrity she possesses.” Kamala Harris, the first Black woman