By a 53-47 margin, the United States Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
Jackson is the first black woman to serve on the Court. Her nomination cleared a final hurdle earlier Thursday when the Senate voted to limit debate and break the filibuster. That procedural vote ensured Jackson's confirmation only required a simple majority.
In addition to every Democrat, Republican Sens. Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins voted in favor of Jackson's confirmation.
The Washington Post has more on Jackson's road to confirmation:
Jackson, a daughter of schoolteachers who has risen steadily through America's elite legal ranks, will become the first Black woman to sit on the court and only the eighth who is not a White man. She will replace Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer after the Supreme Court's term ends in late June or early July.
Thursday's vote represents the culmination of a six-week whirlwind confirmation process for the 51-year-old federal appeals judge.
It began in February with President Biden introducing Jackson as a distinguished nominee who would “help write the next chapter in the history of the journey of America” and reached a climax during two days of tense Senate hearings last month where Republicans sought to paint her as a left-wing radical who had cosseted criminals and terrorists, only for three GOP senators to ultimately reject those claims and support her confirmation.
Underscoring the partisan tensions, Jackson's expected confirmation came only after the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked on her nomination along party lines and Republicans forced three procedural votes on the Senate floor this week. But Democrats said Thursday that her confirmation should a cause for national reflection and jubilation.
So, what do you think? Should Republicans who voted for Jackson's confirmation be primaried with a more conservative challenger? As always, tell us in the comments below!
Well well well. It appears to me in November when republicans take over congress they can impeach her and the other judges if they want. Why not? That is what the Democrats want to do to Judge Thomas. What’s good for a donkey is good for the elephant.
The fear of being called a Racist didn’t have anything to do with it, did it? Had she gone through the same intensive questioning, the left would cry racist for the rest of our lives.
What a disastrous mistake! No doubt that aside from the ignorant ones, the anti-Americans who voted for this activist will live to regret it!
I have been so ashamed of our current government but now I am totally disgusted with this confirmation for the Supreme Court and for the rhino republicans who now we know who to get rid of, how could they vote for a women who doesn’t even know how to disprove what a women is and let’s PEDOPHILER’s off with a lesser sentence of what is normally suggested, I just hope that she keeps her children safe away from such evil people !!
The effort to bring down America thru the destruction of its institutions marches on. There aren’t enough people of conviction in the Republican party to stop it. Don’t think that when the Republicans get back into power anything will change. They are all talk.
Term limits!!! If the position of POTUS has term limits, then every house rep, senate rep, congressman and woman and Supreme Court Justice should have term limits. Every position in our government should have a term limit, period. I hope when we take both the house and senate in Nov, and when Trump returns, we can make this happen.
All three should have a primary and not just because of their SCOTUS votes.
ONE (1) more nail in the coffin of this once-great country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so ashamed of what America is coming to…. We needed this person in the Supreme court like we needed another hole in the head. An idiot that turns pedophiles back out on the street…just what we need more criminal on the streets… The hell with our citizens and children’s safety…What is going wrong with the mentality of our politicians’, it sure isn’t concern for public safety! I have seen so much of it in California and wonder why we have so much crime…. well keep letting the criminals out on the streets. Get your guns ready! We have to protect ourselves…Vote out the stupid politicians that could give a damn about public safety…. Inmates’ lovers!!! Think about public safety when putting a person on the Supreme Court!!!! remember who recommended her. Thanks for helping to destroy the USA!
Why are these three communists dumbocrats allowed to claim they are Republicans? Alaska, Maine and Utah please vote them out! They are dangerous.
We will have many years to regret this political appointment.