Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is using a new memoir published Tuesday to reflect on a personal journey that has already earned her a place in history.
Jackson recalls sinking into her chair when she was an appeals court judge – her blood “a roaring ocean in my ears” – when President Joe Biden called in early 2022 to say he would nominate her to the high court, setting her on a path to become the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice.
” At least some of the landmark anti-discrimination laws that Jackson cites in her book, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, are now being challenged at the Supreme Court. During Jackson’s first term on the court, a majority of her colleagues barred consideration of race to ensure diversity on college campuses. Jackson dissented in one of those cases and recused herself in another, involving Harvard College, because she had previously served on the school’s board of overseers.
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