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.
The confirmation represents a significant victory for Democrats and a way for the president to fulfill a campaign promise at a time when the US faces a number of internal and external challenges, including rising inflation and the crisis in Ukraine.
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.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the first black woman to hold the office in the country, presided over the session during the historic vote in her capacity as president of the Senate. Jackson will be sworn in after Judge Stephen Breyer retires later this year.
Ahead of the final vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the moment a “joyful, important and innovative day.”
“In the 233-year history of the Supreme Court, never, never has a black woman held this title. Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first and I believe the first of many to come”, said the congressman.
Biden had said during his 2020 presidential campaign that he was committed to nominating a black woman to the Supreme Court if elected.
At one point during her Senate confirmation hearings, Jackson was visibly emotional and can be seen wiping away tears as Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, who is one of three black US senators, spoke about her path to the nomination. and the obstacles she had to overcome.
“My parents grew up in a time in this country when black kids and white kids couldn’t go to school together,” Jackson told Booker after the senator asked what values his parents had taught him.
“They taught me hard work. They taught me perseverance. They taught me that anything is possible in this great country,” Jackson replied.
Source: CNN Brasil
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