She not only makes history as the first Black woman on the court but also as first justice in decades to have served as a public defender.
President Biden embraces Ketanji Brown Jackson moments after the U.S. Senate confirmed her to be the first Black woman to be a justice on the Supreme Court in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on April 07, 2022. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Imageswill be a Supreme Court justice, following a 53-47 confirmation vote in the Senate on Thursday.She’ll be the first Black female justice in the court’s history, and the first justice to have served as a public defender.
Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the vote. After gaveling the vote and making the confirmation official, senators broke out into sustained applause.just 42 days, well below the modern average. Jackson joined President Biden at the White House to watch the results of the Senate vote, per the press pool.Justice Stephen Breyer will stick around until the court’s current term ends this summer. Breyer, not Jackson, will participate in this term’s big rulings, including a landmark abortion case that could spell the end of Roe v. Wade.The court has already teed up several politically charged cases for its next term.
The biggest blockbuster so far is a challenge to affirmative action in college admissions, but Jackson has said she would recuse herself from at least part of that case, because it concerns admissions policies at Harvard and she is a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers.As the most junior justice and one of only three justices appointed by a Democratic president, Jackson won’t be writing any major rulings any time soon.
She will be the only justice with any real experience defending people who have been accused of a crime. That’s an extremely relevant background as the court decides plenty of cases about criminal defendants’ rights and the processes that police and prosecutors must follow.Editor's note: This story has been corrected to say Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first public defender to serve on the Supreme Court.
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