The United States have made another historic event as Ketanji Brown Jackson has got nominated and sworn in as the first Black woman to be the Supreme Court justice.
US President, Joe Biden made the nomination in February fulfilling a campaign promise to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.
“It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, but we’ve made it! We’ve made it — all of us,” Jackson said in remarks at a White House event the day after the Senate vote.
“I have dedicated my career to public service because I love this country and our Constitution and the rights that make us free,” Jackson also said.
Jackson has been confirmed since April, when the Senate voted 53 to 47 on her nomination. She would replace 83-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer — whom she served as an assistant shed graduated from Harvard Law School in 1996 — when he stepped down.
All 50 Senate Democrats, including the two independents and three Republicans — Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — voted in favor of Jackson’s confirmation. The vote was lauded as a “historic moment” by Democrats, though the confirmation process was filled with clashes between the parties over Jackson’s past judicial decisions.
Jackson served eight years as a federal trial court judge and was confirmed, in June 2021, for a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia after also being nominated for that post by Biden.