Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first Black woman to be confirmed to the Supreme Court.
. She’ll become the only justice on the court to have a degree from an Ivy League law school, have clerked for a Supreme Court justice, have served as a public defender, have sat on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, have served as a district judge, and to have served as a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Jackson is also the first Black woman to have been nominated to sit on the Supreme Court, a fact that has rankled Republicans throughout the confirmation process. Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and other Republican senators have suggested that Biden’s commitment to nominating a Black woman means Jackson isn’t qualified in her own right. They’ve also repeatedly grilled Jackson with ridiculous questions about race. Cruz even asked her at one point if she believes babies can be racist. Sen.
not only that straying from such guidelines is common, but that Hawley himself has voted to confirm judges who strayed from guidelines in similar cases. The conspiracy theory is so gross that even the conservative
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