Senate poised to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 04: U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) on Capitol Hill, April 04, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday is expected to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S.
Supreme Court in a historic vote that would make her the first Black female justice. President Joe Biden’s nominee is set to replace Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires this summer.
Three Republican senators have said they will support Jackson, giving the president a bipartisan accomplishment in the narrow 50-50 Senate.Jackson, a 51-year-old federal appeals court judge, would be just the third Black justice, after Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, and the sixth woman.
She would join two other women, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, on the liberal side of a 6-3 conservative court. With Justice Amy Coney Barrett sitting at the other end of the bench, four of the nine justices would be women for the first time in history.During confirmation hearings, Jackson faced headwinds from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee who interrogated her on her sentencing record.
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