'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,' said newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks as President Biden reacts at an event celebrating Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. confirmation to the Supreme Court
"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."In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States," she added, also offering a tearful tribute to her daughters. Jackson also thanked Democratic Senate leaders and numerous White House staff involved in her confirmation process.
Biden took time to praise Jackson's"dignity" and said her confirmation is a fulfillment not just of a campaign promise he made, but of a definition of America he said he offered to Chinese President Xi Jinping years ago as a nation of"possibilities." "The young leaders of our nation will learn from the experience, the judgment, the wisdom that you, Judge Jackson, will apply in every case that comes before you," Harris also said.
After her graduation from Harvard Law School, Jackson clerked for Justice Breyer on the Supreme Court.
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