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WASHINGTON - Tearfully embracing a history-making moment for the nation, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court showed the progress of America, declaring, ″We’ve made it — all of us."Jackson delivered emotional remarks on the sunny White House South Lawn a day after the Senate approved her nomination, saying it was a moment in which the entire country could be proud."We have come a long way toward perfecting our union," she said. "In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States."RELATED: Ketanji Brown Jackson: Supreme Court pick defends record during senators' questioningShe added: "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.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday that he will vote against confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying he “cannot and will not” support the groundbreaking nominee for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON - Legal experts and interest groups will weigh in on Ketanji Brown Jackson as the Senate Judiciary Committee wraps up four days of hearings on her historic nomination to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.Jackson faced down a barrage of Republican questioning over two days about her sentencing of criminal defendants, her bid to join the Supreme Court veering from lofty constitutional questions to attacks on her motivations on the bench.On Thursday, the last day of hearings, interest groups including the American Bar Association and civil rights organizations will testify about Jackson's suitability for the court. Witnesses chosen by Republican senators will also speak.The American Bar Association, which evaluates judicial nominees, last week gave Jackson its highest rating, unanimously "well qualified."On Wednesday, her final day of Senate questioning, Jackson declared she would rule "without any agendas" as the high court's first Black female justice and rejected Republican efforts to paint her as soft on crime in her decade on the federal bench.Ketanji Brown Jackson, associate justice of the U.S.

WASHINGTON - Historic confirmation hearings begin on Monday for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who would be the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. Jackson, a 51-year-old who has served as a federal judge for the past nine years, will go before the Senate Judiciary Committee, beginning at 11 a.m.