The United States Senate on Thursday confirmed President Joe Biden’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, during a landmark vote that paves the way for her to become the first black woman to serve on the world’s highest court. parents.
Ketanji’s approval also becomes a major milestone for the US Supreme Court and federal judiciary, although it does not change the court’s ideological balance.
THE CNN Specialist in Rights and Inclusion, Maurício Pestana, sees “with joy the arrival of the judge” to the Supreme Court. “The first thing that needs to be remembered is that the US Supreme Court has been in existence since 1789 and this is the first time a black woman has ever held a chair,” he says.
For Pestana, Ketanji’s approval “is a very big message for Brazil”. “Brazil needs to change, it needs to be truly democratic in representative terms, in the three branches of the Executive”.
Pestana recalled that blacks represent only 13% of the American population and the country’s Supreme Court now has two black judges. “Here in Brazil we are 56% and we only had two black judges on the Supreme Court, Pedro Lessa at the beginning of the last century and Joaquim Barbosa at the beginning of this one”, highlights Pestana.
“It is a shame that Brazil has no black judge on the Supreme Court, and no president or vice president in history. We are the biggest black country outside of Africa.”
Source: CNN Brasil

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