Historic Supreme Court Confirmation
On Thursday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by a 53-47 vote in the Senate, with three Republicans joining all 50 Democrats, supporting her appointment as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice. The Washington Post reports that her confirmation was "felling one of the most significant remaining racial barriers in American government and sending the first Democratic nominee to the high court in 12 years."
Senate confirms Jackson as first Black woman on Supreme Court (Mike DeBonis, Robert Barnes, and Seung Min Kim - The Washington Post)
As the 116th Supreme Court justice, Jackson is "making history in diversifying the bench while leaving unchanged the conservative dominance of a court preparing to tackle gay rights, environmental regulations and race in college admissions," writes Lindsay Wise and Jess Bravin for The Wall Street Journal.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (Lindsay Wise and Jess Bravin - The Wall Street Journal)
This deep partisanship was clearly evident on Monday evening when senators had to vote to formally discharge Judge Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate, following the Senate Judiciary Committee's deadlock of 11-11 on moving Jackson’s nomination forward. It's the first time the Senate has had to take this procedural step for a Supreme Court nominee since 1853.
"GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitt Romney (Utah) voted with Democrats to make Jackson’s nomination available for a full Senate vote," writes Jordain Carney for The Hill.
Collins, Murkowski, Romney help break deadlock on Jackson’s nomination (Jordain Carney - The Hill)
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