The U.S. Senate confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court today Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson — the first Black woman ever confirmed to the high bench. Texas’ U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz voted against her nomination, joining a near-party-line vote of 53-47.
Jackson’s confirmation comes during a politically charged moment that has seen renewed scrutiny over the roles race and gender play in American society — themes that outlined some of the questions she faced during her nomination process. A Harvard-educated lawyer, she has over a decade of experience on federal benches and she has also sat on the U.S. Sentencing Commission and served as a public defender.
The confirmation process took just over 40 days, from the moment President Joe Biden announced his pick to when the Senate voted to confirm. Both Cruz and Cornyn sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which held a multiday marathon hearing with one-to-one questioning of Jackson in March. "If you look at her substantive record, it is far out of the mainstream," Cruz said Wednesday on the Senate floor. "It is an extreme record. If you look at her record, I believe it demonstrates that Judge Jackson — if she is confirmed — will be the single most liberal Supreme Court justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court."
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